SWINDON Town head coach Scott Lindsey has called on fans to stick with the team after some sections of the crowd at Tuesday night’s 3-2 win over Sutton United firmly criticised a tactical decision in the second half.

With the score at 2-2, hundreds of Town fans booed Scott Lindsey for bringing Luke Jephcott off around the hour mark and replacing him with Jacob Wakeling.

Many wanted to see two strikers up front and felt the call to remove Town’s premier deadline-day signing was the wrong one. Some even chanted: “You don’t know what you’re doing” towards the Town boss.

But post-match, Lindsey revealed the change was made because Jephcott not creating as much of an impact as he would have liked, and because the match appeared to have hit a lull.

Asked what he would say to those people who booed him for making the substitution, Lindsey said: “Just stick with us.

“There’s real thought behind why I make those changes, it’s not just a thing where I go: “Oh, I know what we’ll do. We’ll put Jacob Wakeling on and take Jephcott off.”

“Luke Jephcott hasn’t played 90 minutes since pre-season, he was always going to come off in the 70th minute. But I took him off early because I thought, in that moment, the game was flat and it needed a spark.

“I felt that Wakeling came on and gave us that, and of course he scored the winner, so it was obviously the right thing to do.

“But I’d say stick with us because we’re all working extremely hard to win games of football.”

Despite the obvious displeasure at a couple of Lindsey’s decisions, the Town head coach praised the impact of Swindon fans on Tuesday night and reiterated his wish for the crowd to share positive vibes only with the players on the pitch.

Lindsey said: “I thought the fans were good tonight, I really did. There were moments where they came for me a little bit when I made that change, but I do understand it.

“We do think about the changes we make, I promise. It doesn’t hurt me (hearing chants) because I do understand the fans’ frustrations. We’re trying to win a game.

“We’ve got everyone working so hard on the training ground and in a match, we’ve got a way of playing which is very detailed, and it will take time to come together.

“But I think we all need to stick together, all of us.”