BLUEBIRDS stand-in skipper Wayne Thorne has vowed the team will not give up the fight despite suffering another home defeat on Saturday.

Chippenham rued yet more bad luck as they produced an improved performance only to concede two sloppy goals against Welling.

The left-back said: "That was probably the best we have played all season but we still haven't had the luck.

"I don't know what we have got to do really. We have been training hard and have been working hard but that's what it is like when you don't get the rub of the green.

"Last year we weren't playing as well as we are playing now but we were getting all the luck in the world. Now when we need some luck it's just not coming. But we are still here and we aren't chucking in the towel because we are a team of fighters and we will fight until it's all over."

Thorne felt the ball did not run for them at either end of the pitch against Welling.

"We have played the best we have played all season but it is just not happening for us at the moment.

"We've created the chances. We had a couple of one-on-ones and a goal disallowed. The keeper has had a couple of good saves but you have got to earn your own luck.

"We have got to try and work hard. We've got the midweek game in the cup. We can get away from the league and hopefully get a result there because we just need something to kick-start us.

"We are not playing badly. We played much worse last year and got the three points."

The former Gloucester City player said the result was all the more frustrating because individual errors had again proved costly.

"It was two mistakes really that cost us. The first one we lost possession on the left and they got a good cross in for a good header," added Thorne.

"The second one Hervs has held his hands up and said it was a bad kick. But the ball has still gone halfway up the pitch and should have been cleared.

"Their bloke has got a free header and the other bloke has gone through and got it. We have been working hard on the defending recently and have been playing well.

"But that makes it more frustrating especially with the chances we have missed. But that's gone now and we can't do anything to change it."

Thorne added that new manager Steve White had freshened things up at the club with his professional approach and focus on players' fitness.

"In the last three games Chalky has come in and has been very professional. The fitness levels are much better than they we and we are trying to play football," he said.

"With the personnel we have got that's the way we have got to try to play. But it's just the luck and hopefully that will change one day soon before teams get too many points in front of us.''