"The game was lost in that first 30 minutes," he admitted after the match. "But the bigger picture gives me some food for thought on one or two players.
"It's a learning curve for me about my squad and my team, the ones you can trust and the ones you can't. The first half-an-hour was a bit too much for some of them.
"One or two will find it more difficult to get run-outs now and there have been a few lessons learnt by us all. It was a bridge too far for us.
"I'm now looking for a response from the team on Sunday when we play Queens Park Rangers and we'll be trying to put things right at the weekend."