IAN Evatt hopes his dressing room can ‘self-police’ after Saturday’s defeat at MK Dons.

After a slow start, Wanderers had got themselves back into the game and were pushing for an equaliser before James Trafford’s error led to MK’s second, scored by Scott Twine.

As a result, the Whites lost some ground on the top six, and now sit seven points off the play-offs with 11 games remaining.

Asked whether he needed to remind Trafford, or his other players, that standards had slipped, Evatt said: “Absolutely we need to say something because we’re not happy with where we’re at. We’re not happy losing games.

“It is not a nice feeling and it has happened too often, especially when we have been the cause of our own downfall many times this season and today was another episode of that.

“I think there’s loads more to come from this group and we’ll keep working at it.”

Wanderers have a clear week to prepare for their next game, at Gillingham, and Evatt feels some extra time with his players will be beneficial.

“We haven’t really trained,” he said. “It is impossible to train, and this is the problem.

“We have had eight games in the shortest calendar month of the year and it has been challenging.

“And there is probably no worse a team in playing MK Dons in the eighth of eight games, but we still felt like we could have and should have got probably something out of the game.”

Describing the mood in his dressing room after the final whistle, Evatt added: “They are disappointed and they are angry.

“I think they all feel like it was there for us, especially second half and probably after the first 25 minutes of the first half.

“We just started too passively and in the second half when you are full steam ahead controlling the game and the waves of pressure started to come, we have just gifted them a goal, which is unlike us.”

“We were in the middle of our purple patch after half-time when we’ve just gifted them a goal out of nothing with just a poor decision. Goals change games and we had opportunities too.

“They looked tired and we just gifted them it, so I am disappointed with that.”