Deflated Brady blames 'individual errors' for Cobblers' damaging defeat at Swindon

A deflated Jon Brady says his side paid the price for 'individual errors' after they dropped to the foot of League One with defeat to Swindon Town on Saturday.

Ryan Watson fired Town into the lead with a well-taken first-half goal but not for the first time in recent weeks, the visitors were the masters of their own downfall.

Lloyd Jones' cheap foul in first-half stoppage-time was punished by a terrific free-kick from Scott Twine before Joseph Mills and Jonathan Mitchell were at fault when Brett Pitman scored the winning goal 20 minutes from time.

The result extends Town's winless run to 11 league games and means they are now bottom of the table.

"I thought we dominated the first-half without being at our best and we got the goal to go one up," said Brady afterwards. "But we gave them strict instructions before the game to stay on their feet and not to give fouls away, particularly in the final third, because Twine is a very good technician and he can do what he did.

"We gave away a needless foul on the edge of the box and then I feel Mitch can do a lot better with it, in my opinion."

That goal knocked the stuffing out of Town and although they still had chances in the second-half, once again it was that fateful combination of poor finishing and defensive mistakes which culminated in defeat.

Brady added: "They really looked to get into our faces in the second-half and we started to go under so we made a tweak to our shape ad put Mickel (Miller) up and brought the two wide men inside.

"We went to a 4-2-2-2 and we started to get back into the ascendency and we were putting crosses into the box and we really looked like we were going to push on.

"But we get turned over, they start winning the battle in the middle of midfield and I could see the situation arising with their goal - our problem at the moment is that we're giving away individual errors in key moments."