Blues winger Gwion Edwards insists Town will keep fighting despite relegation to League One now appearing an inevitability. The Welshman netted his fifth goal of the season in Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to fellow strugglers Reading which leaves the Blues 12 points plus goal difference from safety with only 11 games left to play.
"We will carry on fighting, pick ourselves up and go again,” the summer signing from Peterborough said. "We should have won and the way we lost is very disappointing. It hurts."
Town need four wins from their final 11 matches, something which appears an impossible task given that they have won just three so far during 2018/19, even to catch up with the teams outside the relegation zone, let alone pass them, even assuming the unlikely event that they don't pick up any more points.
"We have been written off all season but we have stuck together,” Edwards added. "That’s all we can do, stick together and keep fighting.
"The fans have been brilliant, especially in the situation we have been through. You see how other fans are in a similar situation but they have been right behind us and that helps.
"I will wait my chance and like today, show I’m ready to go. I was happy with the finish. Collin Quaner got a touch and we have worked on that in training with the wingers coming in.”
"It was nice to get on the pitch and get a goal but it was disappointing not to get a point.
"We got back in the game and we should have seen the game out to get at least a point.
"We have let ourselves down again and that has been the story of our season - we don't take our chances and we concede too easily.
"We created chances but we have to take them, we have to put the ball in the net. When it comes down to it we have to be more compact, especially late on, as a team.”
Having made a bright start to his first season with Town, Edwards picked up a groin injury which limited his involvement before he returned to the side as a sub in the home game against Stoke a fortnight ago.
"It is frustrating,” he admitted. "Before Christmas I was playing a lot, then I got a couple of niggly injuries in January so it is a case of getting going again. And get a few more starts."
Does he feel he has done enough in his three sub appearances to win a place in the XI? "You don't want to be left on the bench, or left out, but it is not just me other players have missed out so you just have to keep going and get back in.”
Meanwhile, Town’s table-topping U23s are in action at Playford Road this afternoon when they face Burnley (KO 1pm).