Chris Powell saw his Huddersfield Town side slide to a third successive defeat and admitted: “We weren’t at the races.”
The boss said he was both “angry and embarrassed” by Town’s performance as they slumped to a home defeat by 10-man Rotherham United, adding: “We started far too slowly and never got going and our decision making was poor.
“I can’t even say it was two or three of the players who were off their game.
“As a team, we just weren’t there, and that’s not good enough.
“That’s three straight defeats, and we can’t continue that way.
“We have had some very good performances this season, but the last three don’t reflect that.
“We didn’t do the blue and white stripes any justice whatsoever.
“Players have to run and compete before they show skill. Mine haven’t done that.”
Rotherham manager Steve Evans disputed the 75th-minute sending off of his skipper Lee Frecklington for two bookable offences (fouls on Joel Lynch, then Conor Coady).
“That was the only poor part of the game for me,” he said.
“We’ve looked at the second yellow and the lad’s dived. It’s scandalous to get a fellow professional sent off and at the time there was no response from the Huddersfield bench because they knew exactly what their player had done.”
Evans added: It’s a big result and it’s one we needed.
‘We knew that our defending hadn’t been good enough but I thought that my back five, which included a young 18-year-old (on-loan Derby County centre-back Farrend Rawson was making his senior debut), in fact my whole team, gave everything for that shirt.
“We asked our centre-backs to win the headers and clear the lines, and I thought we had a good shape and a real purpose.”
