Town boss Paul Jewell says the Blues had got to learn how to grind out draws when they aren’t playing well rather than falling to defeats such as Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Blackpool. After a relatively even first half, Town never recovered from Gary Taylor-Fletcher’s 49th minute opener.
Jewell said: "We’ve got to get to the stage where we start drawing games when we’re not playing well, I said that last year.
"We don’t seem a team which can avoid losing when we’re not at our best, and we’ve got try and get over that.”
Town drew only eight league matches last season and are yet to record a stalemate during this campaign,
The Blues manager feels his side are lacking self-belief, something which will only come by showing the right attitude when things aren't going well: "To get to that confident level where you think you’re never beaten, you’ve got to get results.
"Confidence is the hardest thing to give anybody. Every manager says that. But certainly you won’t get that if you go under and feel sorry for yourself.
"I don’t feel sorry for myself. I feel really low, I feel really disappointed, but we have to bounce back and try again.
"All we can do is to try and learn from our mistakes and our games and see if we can get better. No one ever said that this job was going to be easy.”
Jewell says the extra couple of days before the live Sky game at home to Coventry next Monday will be helpful having not seen much of several members of his squad during the international fortnight: "We only got Carlos Edwards back from international duty on Friday morning.
"Keith Andrews, Stocky and all these players, [after they’ve been away] they come back a little bit flat, but now we’ve got nine days to try to get them ready for another tough encounter against Coventry.”