James Gibbons has vowed he and his Bristol Rovers teammates will do all they can to ensure they delivered the required response after slumping to a 5-1 thrashing at Morecambe on Saturday.
Manager Joey Barton described it as "embarrassing" and the worst performance of his near-two-year tenure as the Gas capitulated in the second half at the Mazuma Stadium until Aaron Collins provided the merest of consolation goals in the final minute.
Back-to-back defeats have dropped Rovers to 12th in League One, which still represents a strong season in progress after promotion last year, but the losses at Morecambe and Accrington in the past fortnight contain red flags that Barton will want to banish immediately – with a busy end to the transfer window on the cards.
