New Blues boss Paul Lambert was pleased with what he saw from the Town squad in his first training session yesterday with some of the younger players having caught his eye, however, he reiterated that he'll need to add in January.
Speaking to Blues legend Alan Brazil to talkSPORT (5min 18secs) this morning, the Blues’ lack of goals - they have netted only 11, the joint-lowest in the Championship - was pointed out to the new Town manager.
"I think that’s the problem,” Lambert said. "I think you know yourself that the top end of the pitch is where it’s important and we have to find a way.
"It’s OK criticising what’s happened before, but I trained the lads yesterday [Tuesday] and they were excellent for me.
"Whether there’s a lack of confidence or it’s fear I don’t know, but hopefully we will get it going. I’m really looking forward to it. We have to play well as a team.”
Lambert was impressed with the 2,200-strong travelling support at the Den on Saturday and believes that results will see home crowds grow.
"I saw that myself Saturday at Millwall, you wouldn’t have thought it was a club at the bottom of the table with the support they had behind them, it was brilliant,” he said.
"If we can get them going, as I said yesterday, you want fans to come to the stadium and enjoy it, you don’t want them to come feel like it’s another day at the office, you want them to have a good time and we have to give them that. If we can do that then we’ve got a real chance.”
Lambert admits that he will need to add some experience in January with owner Marcus Evans taking a similar view but says he has liked what he has seen of the squad’s younger players.
"We need a little bit of help I think in January,” he said. "As I say, I took the team yesterday and I was really pleased with them, with their effort and the way they went about it and tried to take things on board.
"The owner’s been great with me, he really has. I think he recognises as well that we’ll need a little bit of help in January, which is important.
"There doesn’t need to be a major overhaul, January’s a difficult month. But you do want one or two lads who know the league and know exactly what it’s about, it certainly helps you.
"There are some really good young ones there, definitely some really good footballers, really tidy. They need a little bit of strength in their game but they can play the game, it’s not as if they’re novices, they can certainly play the game.”
Reflecting on the challenge ahead of him with Town currently bottom of the table, he added: "It’s a really tough division, it’s getting better with every single year. Every game is winnable, it’s the team that be consistent more or less gets out of it.
"There are so many games still to play, anything can happen, you can have a little run at it and all of a sudden you can find yourself in mid-table and that’s what we need to try and do. We need to get ourselves out of that bottom three.”
He says building the players’ confidence is an important aspect of his job: "If you’re going out there feeling confident you think you’re unbeatable at times. And that’s my job, to instil that in them.
"I’ll do that the best I can and hopefully they can go out and play with freedom and go and excite people.”
Lambert’s first game is against 20th-placed Preston North End at Portman Road on Saturday afternoon.