JODY Morris says a lack of confidence is affecting Swindon Town's ability to pick the right pass in matches.

Town put back-to-back wins together for the first time since October with a 3-0 success over Harrogate on Saturday, having lost the first three games of Morris' tenure to slip away from the promotion play-off places in League Two.

After the game the new head coach provided his thoughts on why he believes his players do not always make the correct or incisive pass when the option is available.

Some of the Town faithful booed in the early minutes in frustration at team not going forward.

Morris, who replaced Scott Lindsay in the hotseat at the start of the month, said: “Sometimes the players turn down passes because of confidence and that is one of the reasons that I am against the booing as that can affect confidence.”

“Other times they literally don’t see it and think they’ve got something better on.

This was not the only explanation that Morris gave as to why his players do not always choose to make what could be viewed in hindsight as the right pass.

“At the same time there are ‘Literal Larrys’ as me and a pal call them,” he revealed.

“You say something before the game and it might be that we need to stay on the ball here and make sure they’re working hard to get the ball back and obviously if we get opportunities to hurt we need to take them.

“But if the focus is on that, it might mean that you only see that. I said at half time there were plenty of opportunities that we could take because of how high their line was and the time we had on the ball but we didn’t take it and in the second half, there’s an element of us not making enough passes.”

Morris refused to let this get in the way of a good win though and acknowledged that other factors come into play in the beautiful game that affect this.

“That’s football and that happens with players and sometimes you’ve got to give credit to the opposition as well,” he said.

“It’s a process but hopefully we’ll get there.

Swindon now find themselves in 10th position in the table, four points from the play-off positions.

Morris' men  face a big test on Saturday when they travel to the Breyer Group Stadium to face Leyton Orient, who lead the table under title-winning former Town chief Richie Wellens.