Boss Paul Jewell says Town need to stop feeling sorry for themselves after conceding goals. The Blues rarely looked like getting back into their 2-0 loss at Blackpool once Gary Taylor-Fletcher put the Seasiders in front four minutes after the break.
Jewell said: "We look at the minute that once we go a goal behind it’s going to be hard work for us to get back in the game, certainly away from home. Up until the goal, there was nothing in it, so we’re disappointed to lose the game.
"At the moment our heads are going down once a goal goes in and we’ve got to stop feeling sorry for ourselves.
"Nobody gives you anything for nothing in this game. Whatever you get in football you earn and we earned that little bit of luck we had against Leeds.”
The Blues boss says the whole side need to defend better: "A lot of the time our defence has come in for a lot of blame, but as a team we don’t defend well enough.
"From the front, through to the midfield to the back four, we get exposed too quickly by teams running through the midfield, and we’ve got to work harder when we’re not in possession.”
Jewell also felt Town failed to make the most of their opportunities when they came: "We did have three chances where we could have scored where we didn’t make the keeper work.
"Jimmy Bullard went through when we’ve got five against three and Daryl’s had two opportunities, so if one of those went in it might have been different.”
Overall, the Town manager concedes his team is very much a work in progress: "I think at the moment we’re searching for a formula, we’re a bit unbalanced. We don’t know our best team at the moment, to be honest.
"Danny Collins has come in today and been terrific and after beating Leeds last week we wanted to take that on today.
"I thought in the first half we did OK, against a team which was in the Premier League last year and have some good players.
"We don’t have that belief to go on and dominate games at the moment, and think that’s evident to see.”
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway was pleased with his side’s second home win of the season: "I’m delighted for the lads. We’re used to losing and this group’s trying to get used to winning, but sometimes you can get a little bit nervous.
"In the first half we didn’t pass it as well as we normally do, but in the second half we did. Thanks to the fans, they really helped the lads.
"I think the second goal pleased me more than anything. It was a lovely move and a sidefoot into more or less an empty net when they had everybody chasing.
"We made it look easy, and good teams normally do that. We looked a good team for a few minutes in that game, so I’ll have to settle for that and try and move on to the next time.”