COLIN Todd is refusing to panic ahead of Town's visit to Valley Parade but admits that hitting a bad patch at this stage of the campaign could be very costly'.

Todd, who is watching the injuries pile up, said: "Football is all about your next game. We've lost two games in eight so there's no need to panic.

"We don't like losing but our objective, as always, is to try to win the next one.

"I know what pressure is about. It's when you lose five or six on the trot, not that it's happened to me that often.

"If you do hit a bad run like that at this period of the season then it becomes very costly.

"If we're talking positive, we have gone four games undefeated at home. Now we have to make it five."

Not that the former County Ground boss is expecting tomorrow's clash to be a stroll.

He said: "We know it's going to be a battle with Swindon. We have to be cleverer than them and move the ball better than we have done.

"We have to give them problems, go on the front foot with our sleeves rolled up.

"I've told the boys that there is a battle on now. It's no good looking at the other end of the table.

"What we have to do is play in the manner we have done for periods of games at home, Brentford and Swansea in the last 20 minutes, that's the sort of performance we've got to have over 90 minutes.

"We've lost one game and everyone's talking about Swindon. It's about us, just because we've lost once doesn't mean we've become a bad side overnight.

"Swindon have been winning games and we have to be mentally strong enough to overpower them, which I think we are capable of doing.

"It's when people shirk their responsibilities that the going gets tough and we can't afford that to happen."

Todd will have Dean Windass to call on before he starts a five match suspension but Richard Edghill is out for the rest of the campaign having broken his ankle in last week's defeat at Colchester United.

Owen Morrison is out for two more months while winger Ben Muirhead is recovering after a hernia operation.