Caretaker manager Richard Dobson feels the Wanderers let themselves down with some poor defending in Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Gillingham - a match he believes his side could have won with the scores level at 2-2.

The Blues went behind three times in the game as the home side took advantage of weaknesses in the Wycombe backline to secure the win, but Dobson told the press after the match that there was a chance of the points going the other way towards the end:

"Understandably I'm disappointed to lose the game," he said. "We conceded poor goals at important times in the game and the goal just before the half-time whistle, when we were looking fairly comfortable at that stage, was a bad time to concede.

"We'd got ourselves back in the game and with 15 minutes left I was looking at it thinking we could nick something. I felt that we were in the ascendency and it was another very poor goal to give away, which meant we had to chase the game for the last 15 minutes.

"I would have been pleased with a draw and it would have shown a bit of character to come here a get a point, but the third goal killed us. I'm gutted about the result because I wanted to lift the club," he added.

The match highlighted two areas of concern which have plagued the Blues throughout the campaign so far - a lack of goalscoring chances up front and weaknesses in defence which have resulted in poor goals being conceded, particularly the Gills' second of the afternoon:

"We're lacking that bit of creativity around the box," said Dobson. "Whether that's because people are playing safe and have gone into their shell I don't know, but I'm sure there are players in there who are capable of unlocking defences.

"Their second goal was from a cheap throw-in and their runners weren't tracked. This is bog standard defending and you expect people to take responsibility for the ugly side of the game - tracking runners and defending properly. Unfortunately it's not just cost us today but it's cost us in recent weeks and that's been the difference; we're conceding too many poor goals.

"I've said to the players that it's not going to be my place to work on it but I care about them and I want to see them make things easier for themselves. When you score two away from home you hope to get something," he concluded.

Coming soon: Richard Dobson discusses the managerial situation and Paul Dennis provides the best photos from Priestfield.