ACCRINGTON Stanley manager John Coleman has not ruled out making changes to his side following a 3-0 humbling by Tranmere Rovers.

The Reds boss may already be forced into at least one alteration, with Sean Maguire’s loan spell coming to an end - although Coleman was optimistic of finalising the striker’s return from West Ham ahead of tomorrow’s trip to AFC Wimbledon.

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But if another loan arrangement does not come off in time, Coleman says he may have some tough selection decisions to make as he bids to bounce back from a missed opportunity to make ground on the play-off pack.

“I’m a firm believer that you should let people have an opportunity to put things right, but we wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t explore every alternative and every opportunity and every avenue that we think can make us capable of winning on Saturday, and that’s what we do every week,” he said.

“We don’t just say it’s the same team as last week.

“It’s not like Liverpool in the 70s and 80s when it was the same 14 every year. We’ll go with what we think is right on the day.

“Whatever team I put out from the squad that I’ve got in the dressing room I’ve got no qualms that they’ll give it their all.”

Players such as Marcus Carver and James Gray will be hoping for a recall, whether Maguire returns or not, as will Nicky Hunt, who was an unused substitute last weekend. Anthony Barry, meanwhile, has started only twice since returning to the club in October.

But as they prepare to embark on a run of eight games in a month, with re-arranged home games against Bury and Burton to slot in during that time, Coleman expects to make full use of his squad.

“We’ve got a bank of games coming up now so you’d think that at some point players are going to be called upon,” he said.

“Piero (Mingoia) and Seamus (Shay McCartan) have shown that you can be out of the team for quite a long spell but if you get in and do well, you stay in. They’ve got to be the role models for that.”

Preparations for the trip to Kingsmeadow have been disrupted by the weather this week, with yesterday’s training session taking place on the snow covered pitch at the Store First Stadium. But Coleman said the elements had allowed time to study Saturday’s defeat with the players.

“It’s difficult because the work that you plan to do and you try to do gets taken away from you,” he said. “It hasn’t been ideal but it gave us a chance to sit down and watch the video and dissect it and go through areas where we think we can improve as a team and individually. I think that was a valuable exercise.”

“We didn’t watch every minute of it. We watched about an hour of it but that hour can take up to two and a half hours when you’re dissecting it and rewinding it.

“I think they understand. Goals definitely change games and the two goals they scored were really the first two times they’d been near our goal and they were down to mistakes - not just individual mistakes but several mistakes for both goals. That’s disappointing and the players are frustrated with that.

“We’re trying to get across a mentality that they have to treat every minute of the game as if it’s the last minute and they’re winning.

“You only have to look at how we’ve seen out games at Exeter and Portsmouth and Northampton, when we’ve had to we’ve defended manfully, and we have got the ability to do that, as I’ve said since I’ve been here.

“But at times we fall asleep and on Saturday we didn’t realise the seriousness of the first 20 minutes or so that cost us the game.”