Ian Holloway said that he believes the culture at Swindon Town needs to be changed for them to get out of the downward spiral they are in.

Town are on their fifth permanent manager in the last three seasons as they have struggled to live up to the performance of the first year of the Morfuni regime when Ben Garner and Ben Chorley took them to the playoffs.

Jamie Russell also became the second recruitment lead to depart since the 2021/22 campaign this week, with Town yet to decide on the direction they will take next.

A month into his time at the club and Holloway has taken one point from his first three league games, despite progressing in the FA Cup and Vertu Trophy, with the club now only outside of the relegation zone on goal difference.

Speaking ahead of the FA Cup Second Round tie with Accrington Stanley, Holloway said that he is working hard to fix the culture at the club, which he feels is damaging to their performances and causing constant change.

He said: “We have had so many changes as a club, we need to make sure that the culture inside the club is right and at the moment it isn’t. That is what I am working on at the moment.

“I have never seen a team lose confidence after they go 1-0 up away at MK Dons. There are reasons behind all of it and it is about trying to get a settled, winning formula.

“Your format that you do every day gives you confidence that you are going to get a better result. That is very difficult when you are a bit inconsistent and you have had some senior players out.

“We have to be an awful lot better, you can throw a group together and you get them playing games but that doesn’t mean that they will be a team. That is where I am going to work right now as that is what I have learned over the years.

“If you don’t change your environment on your training ground then any person who comes into it might end up like the person who was in there who was not successful.

“We have had far too many changes and it is about time that we try and get a settled mentality and training regime. Our physical one is very good but we haven’t got a mental one at the moment, in my opinion.”