Brentford boss Andy Scott has told his defenders to buck their ideas up and recapture the form of last season that produced 21 cleansheets - or else.

The 37-year-old blew his top after watching his side gift Swindon Town three goals in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Griffin Park, which had seen the Robins 2-0 up at half-time.

Striker Carl Cort’s first goal for the club had given the Bees faithful hope before Town restored their two goal advantage to claim the points, despite a frantic last ten minutes following Charlie MacDonald’s second goal of the season.

“I am fuming, absolutely fuming and if I could rip heads off I would,” said the Griffin Park chief.

“We’ve been beaten by a side that we shouldn’t have been beaten by. We should have won that game, but we lost because we gave away three goals.

“We’ll have to do more work on defending. We might have to change the side. In the last three games, we’ve had a total of 11 shots at our goal and we’ve conceded six goals.

“We’re not allowing a lot of shots on our goal, but the ones that we are, are obvious goal scoring chances that we can’t deal with.

“That’s not us. We kept 21 clean sheets last year. Maybe this year they think they can do something different. That ain’t gonna happen.

“We’ve done exactly the same in training as we did last year, but when it comes to a game we are a shadow of ourselves.

“It is either they don’t want to do it, or they can’t do it. If they can’t do it someone else will come in and do it, and if they don’t want to do it, then equally so.”

The Bees travel to Hartlepool United on Friday night with Scott demanding a change from the form that has seen his side start each of the last three games poorly.

“We’ll have to see whether they buck their ideas up, whether I change it for Friday or not,” he added.

“We are a soft touch and I’ve just said to the lads that sooner or later we’re not going to be allowed back into a game by a side and will get absolutely hammered.

“Our performances have got to change. If we are more solid we will win games in this league, no doubt. They’ve got to buck up and liven up pretty quickly because Hartlepool on a Friday night ain’t going to be pretty either."

Brentford’s next three games: Oct 9 Hartlepool United (a), 17 Leyton Orient (a), 24 Stockport County (h).