A dejected Kelvin Langmead

Stand-in skipper Kelvin Langmead has admitted the entire Shrewsbury Town squad must share responsibility for the potentially season-damaging League Two slump.

Town’s promotion dream has been left hanging by a thread after a run of four consecutive defeats in which they have failed to find the net.

Shrewsbury could drop another place to 12th tonight should Accrington register a home victory over Barnet.

And Langmead has admitted each individual must take a long, hard look at themselves ahead of the Easter weekend double header with Torquay and Notts County.

“We have to look at ourselves and the way we are doing things as individuals and then as a collective,” said Langmead, who took over the armband after captain Graham Coughlan was dropped.

“I don’t think there are enough of us doing the right things.

“We are letting ourselves down first and foremost and with that we let the manager down. With the way we are playing we are letting everybody down – the fans, even our families.

“We are not playing well enough or doing our jobs properly.

“We are conceding goals and not scoring goals and that is a recipe for disaster.

“All the goals we have conceded recently have been bad goals and, as defenders we have to take the criticism that we get for that because it’s right.

“We are not creating anything either and that’s not just down to the strikers – that’s as a team.”

Langmead admitted his team have been a soft touch against the division’s strugglers after picking up just one point from four games against the bottom two clubs, Grimsby and Darlington.

“If you want to achieve anything you have to beat the teams near the bottom and get points against the teams near the top,” he added.

“We had got ourselves in a really strong position and we have let ourselves down.

“But you have to keep believing. There are eight games, it’s going to be difficult and we have made it hard for ourselves but you can never give up.”

By JAMES GARRISON