TOWN boss Andy King said that he will be bringing in a new face for this week's trip to Northampton after his side's dismal defeat against Stoke.

He said: " It's my job as a manager that if I don't think it is good enough then I'll make changes.

"There will be someone else in next week because I don't think we are good enough as a side. We are in a position in the league which says we're not. I may make the right choice, I may not but I will make a choice.

"It's difficult to bring in players from the Premiership because they won't give you the players they want, they won't let you have their kids who are not proven and then you look non-league.

"You exhaust every level and every idea. It's not easy but it's not an easy job. I never thought I was walking into an easy job.

The manager said his side did not give themselves a chance after conceding two early goals.

He said: "They have come off a defeat last Tuesday and we thought that if we could get pressure on them and get the first goal, that would drain them.

"Then, something that has happened here for a long, long time and keeps happening again and again, we find ourselves 2-0 down in 11 minutes and there's no way back from that.

"Even great sides do not come back from that and we are not a great side. We are not even a good side.

"I said to them that I will praise them when they need praising and today they have been atrocious."

All three goals were down to errors and Town showed little up front to suggest they could get back into the game.

"I've been saying that we cannot defend and I've brought someone in but he hasn't helped us defend.

"You just can't keep conceding goals from set pieces.

"As a club, you don't go from where you were to where you are without a reason and the problem is that we are too easy to beat at the moment."

King believes it is now time for a lot of Town followers to take a reality check.

He said: "We are not a great side. The expectations of getting promotion and all that this year, someone wants to be living in reality because it's Christmas and the only way we are going to get that is if someone gives it to us as a Christmas present.

"People are saying now that Swindon are easy meat and they have done for a long time.

"People need to realise that it is going to be hard work. I was never in the position of thinking that the play-offs was going to be a possibility.

"It's going to be a fight all the way and all I want to do is get out of the fight as quickly as possible."

He has faith that his players can do the job in hand.

He said: "I think I have got a strong enough squad to get out of this situation but we've got to start winning games.

"But, we had no composure, we had no belief on the ball. We're scared.

"The only time they show endeavour and enthusiasm and willingness is when they go behind. We have to start with that and take the game forward.

"The only pluses were Ian Woan's quality left foot and the keeper made some decent saves

"This is a nice football club and we have got to get things right because we don't want to be going to a new stadium with a team in the Conference."