SWINDON Town boss Martin Ling wants his team to find some consistency.

Ling has guided Town to two wins at home, but has failed to pick up anything away from the County Ground. In the two games on the road against Rochdale and Fleetwood, Swindon have conceded eight goals and scored two.

The Fleetwood result in particular came as a surprise to Ling, who thought his team had prepared well for the trip to Highbury and would be confident after ending their long run of defeats. Instead, Swindon massively underperformed.

Now the Town boss takes his side to face a team who are similarly falling below expectations this season in Chesterfield.

Off the back of another win, Ling is again hoping to see the squad’s confidence pick up and to follow that with an improved performance.

“We need to (perform) back-to-back. The two away performances that I’ve had at the club, Rochdale and Fleetwood, have been nowhere near good enough,” Ling told the local media.

“So we hope to put a better performance in against Chesterfield and take the confidence from the (Walsall) result into the game on Saturday.

“We won the Scunthorpe game then we went to Fleetwood and from what I saw in training (the defeat) was a real shock to the system.

“We have answered the critics and stuck with it (against Walsall).

“We just need a bit of confidence from the players, I thought Scunthorpe might do that, but we’ll be looking to follow-up (Tuesday) with a positive result up at Chesterfield.

“If you show character and determination, you’ve got half a chance and we’re going to need that at Chesterfield.

“We’re missing our skipper, so things are going to be a bit different.”

The win over Walsall on Tuesday was certainly not pretty. By Ling’s own admission, the style of play was not what he was looking for.

However, the Town boss would not mind overseeing a few more ugly performances if it rebuilt confidence and got a few results along the way.

“The philosophy won’t change, but we feel that we might have to see a couple of (Walsall) type results and those type of performances, before the free-flowing stuff comes, because that comes with confidence as well,” added Ling.

“The hardest place to pass the ball is when you’re in the bottom four. It’s easy when things are going well, you see things when you’re confident and your passing is much easier when you're confident.”