ACCRINGTON Stanley assistant manager Jimmy Bell has warned that no Reds player is guaranteed a starting spot after Saturday’s 3-1 home loss to bottom of the table Newport County.

It was the Reds third defeat of the season at the Wham Stadium and Bell revealed he and manager John Coleman will not be afraid to ring the changes in a bid to put form right.

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“Me and John feel very, very let down,” said Bell. “We’re letting the fans down and ourselves down with our home form.

“We have talked about where it is going wrong and we will put it right but teams are coming here and doing a job on us.

“We need to come up with a plan, a ploy and a strategy to beat teams at home. When we do we will gallop up that league but until then we will find it difficult.

“Maybe it is a bit easy for these players who know they are going to play every week but not anymore, the riot act has been read to them.

“We will come up with something, I am 100 per cent certain that we will, and when we do we are going to be near the top of the league but if we don’t win our home games then we are going to find it difficult.”

After a goalless first half Stanley went behind just two minutes after the re-start when Rhys Healey scored for the visitors and Jazzi Barnum-Bobb made it two on the hour.

Stanley halved the deficit through Janoi Donacien but Josh Sheehan’s injury time strike sealed the points for the South Wales side.

And Bell admitted after the game that, despite a bright start, Stanley were not good enough.

He added: “I thought we started the game really brightly. We were on the front foot, we were getting the ball wide and putting the ball into the box.

The atmosphere in the changing room before the game was very good we were really up for this but it quickly got extinguished.

“We became laboured and slow and lethargic in the build-up play and we were very predictable.

“At half time we gave them a kick up the backside and within a minute we go a goal down and we knew as soon as we went a goal down to Graham Westley team it is going to be difficult.

“They do everything they can within the rules to win the game and credit to them they were excellent.

“With them going a goal up we had to change things and went to three at the back and poor defending again has allowed them to score the second goal and it is not good enough.

“We had a little bit of rally and pulled one back and then the defending for the third was not good enough.

“It was a bad day at the office.”

The result dropped Stanley out of the top seven to ninth place and two points off the play-offs ahead of this weekend’s trip to League One side Bradford City in the FA Cup first round.