“EVERYBODY is gutted, I think we dominated the game and not just in patches – the whole way through."

Captain Jonathan Douglas echoed the general feeling of the Swindon Town dressing room after this afternoon’s 2-1 defeat to Colchester United in League One.

Douglas played an instrumental role in midfield as Swindon emerged from a scrappy first half to ease into total control of the contest at the Weston Homes Community Stadium, only to fall victim to a late Steven Gillespie winner, and told the Advertiser that kind of performance deserved a good result.

“To come away with nothing is devastating for us really but we’ve got another game on Tuesday so if we put in the same performance on Tuesday I’m sure the result will be different,” he said.

“We’ve not been getting the rub of the green, and again today I think the performance was good from everybody.”

Douglas’ assessment was spot-on, as Town produced one of their best displays on the road this term.

But once again fortune favoured the opposition, with referee Graham Salisbury turning down appeals for a blatant penalty with the score at 1-1.

And the Swindon skipper is hopeful Lady Luck can find it in her to get behind the County Ground side as they face 15 games to save their season.

“Nobody in the dressing room has thought we can’t do it, and it’s just days like this – we could have got a couple of penalties – it’s just not happening,” he said.

“Even in the last minute there the ball’s just clipped my head. On another day it goes off me and goes wide but today it went in and that’s just the way it’s happening at the moment.”