Midfielder Cole Skuse insists morale in the camp remains high and that there is no need to panic as Town leave no stone unturned in their quest to register their first win of the season.
Skuse said: "We’re not panicking. I don’t think it would be a good sign if the senior players were panicking. But I would be lying to you if I said I wasn’t thinking about it.
"Looking at the paper and seeing us bottom of the league after seven games is not a nice sight. It’s not a case of panic but there are definitely things that need to be looked at in order to put things right.
"We have two home games this week and I’m confident that at least one of them will see us record our first win of the season.”
Asked what it will take to turn things round, 32-year-old Skuse added: "You can’t go home or leave the training ground on a daily basis and think things will change just like that.
"You are thinking about the situation, you are looking at the league table, but it’s not panic stations just yet because we are still at an early stage of the season.
"The longer it goes on, the more you want to get the three points, get that weight off your back and go on a little run.
"We’ve played eight games without getting a win so things have got to be looked at.
"We’ve got to look at everything in terms of our week-to-week preparations for games, how we look after ourselves away from the club and it’s all got to be magnified because we have not been able to get a win.
"I cannot pinpoint one thing that is guaranteed to have that effect. We need to look at everything and cover all areas to try to get our first three points.”
Town face two home games this week — high-flying Brentford are the visitors on Tuesday and Bolton, who last week narrowly avoided going into administration and incurring a 12-point penalty, are the visitors on Saturday.
Sticking rigidly to the well-worn policy of taking each game as it comes, Skuse continued: "Brentford are a very good side and they’ve had two or three seasons where we’ve wondered if it could be their year. They play a nice brand of football.
"But they don’t go out and make what you might call marquee signings. Their recruitment is very good, very shrewd, and manager Dean Smith has done a great job there for a few years now.
"It’s always a tough game, Brentford, whether it’s home or away. Best of luck to them for the rest of the season but not on Tuesday night.
"The morale is still very high within the camp. There are certain individuals who won’t let it drop and it’s not panic stations, but to get the first three points would do everyone within the group the world of good, as well as the fans and people outside the club. It would give everyone a boost.”
Town’s latest disappointment, the 2-0 defeat at Hull on Saturday, has left a growing number of supporters seriously concerned about the club’s position and Skuse said he fully understood their position.
"Of course I do,” he added. "Like I said, I spent the day with Chambo yesterday. As soon as I walked through the door and into my house I was thinking ‘Football’s gone, it’s time for a roast dinner and play with the kids.’
"But five minutes in I’m looking at the ceiling, twiddling my thumbs and thinking about Saturday’s game, picking the bones out of it.
"Like Chambo said in his interview after the game, if you are conceding a goal after three or four minutes away from home, when you’re not on the best of run yourselves, it lifts the Hull players and fans straight away.
"They were not on a great run either so we were looking to keep them out for 15 or 20 minutes, put them on the back foot and hope that they went into a bit of a shell.
"The crowd would have been on their backs, which would have meant we were the ones getting a lift and it would have been a completely different game.
"To start the game in that manner and then to almost finish it in that manner, conceding so late, was a real shame. The goals were very avoidable and even in between them it wasn’t a great game by any stretch.
"After we got a decent result against Norwich we felt we had put in a good performance and weren’t too far from picking up all three points, which we probably deserved.
"The lead-up to Hull, with the international break, the morale and the banter around the place, was very, very good.
"We were going into the game at Hull full of confidence but it felt like a popped balloon to deflate like that.
"It wasn’t good so we owe an apology, not only to the fans who travelled in such large numbers but also to the staff and everyone involved with the club.”