SWINDON Town head coach Jody Morris wants his players to show “a bit more personality and character” against Stockport County on Saturday after what the boss called a “flat” display at Rochdale last weekend.

Town twice took the lead against the division’s bottom side but ended up counting themselves lucky they left Spotland with a point following Ian Henderson’s injury-time equaliser and a further chance which struck the post.

With the gap to the play-offs widening, Morris was adamant his team would continue fighting until the end but stated the players must look more lively in the final batch of fixtures.

Morris said: “The things I would like to see different is countless fewer mistakes, countless fewer repetitive mistakes that we’ve been addressing.

“And also, I want us to show a bit more personality and character. I wasn’t happy with the body language of the players on Saturday.

“There were plenty of periods in the game where I didn’t like the look of us. There were balls out of play and I’m looking at a few of the players – I felt we looked flat.

“We’re always going to try and make the play-offs until it’s mathematically impossible.

“I’m just being honest about the Rochdale performance, that wasn’t good enough. That was rubbish to watch from a coach’s point of view.”

Town are used to bossing possession in games, but Swindon enjoyed just 52 per cent of the ball at the Crown Oil Arena as they edged Rochdale for shots by 18 to 17.

Both sides generated eight shots on target, but Morris felt his squad should have done far more damage on top of Charlie Austin’s four-goal haul.

Morris said: “I like seeing goals, and the only plus from the game was how we attacked the final third.

“I just felt we looked like we could score every time we got forward, but we weren’t getting forward enough in comfortable possession.

“If you’re not getting into those positions enough to cause problems and you’re making that many mistakes – I don’t think we worked that hard to get a couple of those goals.

“The first goal we scored, Marcel Lavinier miss-hits it towards one of their players and he miss-controls it. That means it falls to Charlie Austin and we get it out the other side for the cross to come in.

“That comes from poor play from us. Just because it ends in a goal, that doesn’t mean I’m going to sit here and pretend it was great attacking play.”