We may have played well – at times – but zero points from three games is not an ideal situation.

But even with that being the case, there is no need to panic just yet.

This Saturday sees AFC Wimbledon travel to the familiar surroundings of Northampton Town's Sixfields.

Northampton were the class of League Two last year, but we still gave them a good game (or two).

We need a point. A fourth straight league loss will create a dent in the dressing room – both in morale and the wall, I suspect.

Neal Ardley is still fine-tuning a working formula with his starting XI, but there is one area that needs addressing quite urgently.

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The Wondering Womble is notoriously pragmatic, but even I couldn’t hide my frustration in the Chemflow End towards Ryan Clarke when Bolton Wanderers came to town.

In three league games we have conceded seven goals, and at least three of those should have been stopped with relative ease.

Bolton's first happened in slow motion and Clarke should have held it. He will be all too aware of that, and so will the manager.

Will we see a James Shea resurgence? It can't hurt (any more that it has already) and, after all, he was side-lined after a similar run of bad form himself.

Ardley was uncharacteristically scornful of the officiating after the Scunthorpe game, which the Dons should have drawn after being denied arguably two penalties.

But this is part of the game. Sometimes the referee will seem against you, and reflecting on it gets you nowhere. It’s part of the game - "keep calm and carry on" and all that.

What we need this weekend, more than ever, is the never-say-die attitude that saved our bacon so often last year…

…and a brick wall between the sticks.