ADIE Mings admits that his Chippenham Town side need to get their season back on track as soon as possible.

After suffering a 3-1 defeat to Bashley in Tuesday night’s rearranged clash at Hardenhuish Park, Chippenham have gone for six Evo-Stik League games without a win, with their last triumph being the dramatic 2-1 victory over promotion rivals AFC Totton on New Year’s Eve.

Mings’ men go in search of their first Southern League win of 2012 at Hemel Hempstead Town this weekend and the Bluebirds’ boss has challenged his players to recapture the form that saw them string together a 10-match unbeaten run earlier in the season.

He said: “We had a great December but we’ve definitely had a bad January and it’s up to the lads to figure out what they’re doing differently now to what they were doing before.

“I think we haven’t taken our chances in some games when they’ve come and we’ve ended up not getting the results we wanted.

“You can talk about systems or tactics as much as you want but it always comes down to effort, application, commitment and desire from the players, as well as what I do as the manager.

“It’s going to take hard work on the training ground if we want to get back to the side we were because, I feel, we’ve let our standards slip.”

The Bluebirds have taken three points from their last six and currently sit seventh in the table, two points behind sixth-placed Leamington and three behind Chesham United, who occupy the final play-off position, with a game in hand.

With just 11 points separating the top eight in the league, Mings feels that his side would have been in a healthy position if they had managed to taste victory again since the turn of the year.

“It’s disappointing because if we’d picked up another six points, then we’d be sitting in a good position,” said the Hardenhuish Park chief.

“It’s definitely been a mini-slump for us but we have to keep going and try to get back to the kind of form that will see us finish as high up the table as possible.”

The likes of Iain Harvey, Nathan Rudge, Greg Tindle, Mani Randhawa, Alex Kite and James Guthrie are all struggling with knocks ahead of injury-hit Chippenham’s trip to third-from-bottom Hemel.