Inverness Caledonian Thistle defender Coll Donaldson says team haven't been good enough to meet aim of promotion
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COLL Donaldson says Inverness Caledonian Thistle haven’t been good enough to meet their aspirations of getting out of the Championship.
And he says coming up to the halfway point of the season, things need to change quickly if they want to keep their top-flight dreams alive.
Inverness lost their third match in four games with a disappointing 3–0 defeat at Arbroath last weekend.
After a promising start to the campaign with Inverness challenging for top spot, a freefall in results has seen Caley Thistle only pick up four points from a possible 15.
Donaldson says his team have played to an unacceptable standard and said a change in form is required quickly.
“This is not good enough. “For a team with our aspirations it is not good enough. “And we need to change because it is now November.
“It’s not like the start of the season where we are still getting to know each other. “We have been long enough with each other. We have to start putting a run together. I think the quality is there. But how can we keep coming out and say the quality is there and lose games. We need to start doing it on the pitch. We need to start winning games.”
Donaldson says fault for the team’s form lies all over the pitch, saying the result on Saturday was one of the worst performances in his two-and-a-half years at the club.
“The performance was up there with the worst I have been involved with during my time here.
“We never looked like scoring and looked like conceding at the other end.
“The first half hour was a non event and then they get their goal out of nothing.
“But that is what’s happening recently, teams don’t seem to be working hard to score against us. We seem to be working unbelievably hard to even create a chance.”
Donaldson says his team are not lacking effort but that heads are going down too easily when they fall behind.
“I felt the effort was there but there doesn’t seem to be a reaction when we concede goals. That is something we need to work on.
“It is something we can’t get away from but it is nothing that we can’t fix.
“Maybe we are just lacking in confidence just now which happens when you go behind in games you do struggle to come back
“It is two weeks in a row that we haven’t reacted to going behind. We are going to go behind in games and there are going to be tough periods in games.
“This is not a one-off result now, we were beat at Morton, lost to Dundee United and beat at Arbroath.”
