LUKE Williams committed himself to further viewings of Swindon Town’s display against Woking on Saturday after admitting that he was far from pleased with his side’s showing in Surrey.

As part of the deal that took John Goddard to the County Ground, Town travelled to the midfielder’s former National League employers but were beaten 3-1 at the Laithwaite Community Stadium, trailing 1-0 at half-time before, after introducing eight substitutes, including four triallists, at the break, going on to fold to the Cards by conceding twice more.

Whilst the result mattered little to the Swindon head coach, Williams was left with some causes for concern.

However, he promised to consult video footage to properly break down his players’ performances, including those of hopefuls Charles Dunne, Morgan Ferrier, Kenny McEvoy and Harly Wise.

“We have everything filmed. In the dugout, you normally get the worst seat in the house,” Williams told BBC Wiltshire.

“You’re very low and the angles are not great and so on, so we watch it back and try to make sure we do the boys justice.

“I think we’re looking more at the performance – there were no points at stake but there were some things that we didn’t like at all about the performance.

“We’re much more concerned with the first-half action really because so many players that we know are going to feature heavily in the first team, that we’re going to rely on a huge amount (were playing).

“There were some concerns there that we didn’t seem to be able to move the ball quickly enough. We started brightly but we know that’s not a habit we want to get into.

“The second-half performance is difficult to assess because so many players that trained with us once (on Friday) and are trying to show us what tools they’ve got and what they’re about.

“They’re not a team; they’re a group of individuals and some young first-year professionals that we’re looking at to learn about them.

“There was probably a lack of concentration from some players, which there’s zero excuse for. I put that down to a very heavy pre-season schedule and players not feeling 100 per cent in the condition they’d like to be in going in to a game.

“But still, there’s no excuse for playing quite so sloppily and to turn the ball over so many times, and conceding.”

Williams also felt for his quartet of triallists, who had a hard time giving the best accounts of themselves during the second half.

He said: “I think it’s always difficult for triallists and if you are going on trial somewhere.

“Really, you want to be the only triallist and to go into a team that’s really well set-up and playing well so that you can show all your positive sides off.

“When you go into a side of very young players and other triallists in a similar boat – probably nervous and they don’t know what’s expected of them – I think it is difficult.

“We could see that the two boys that played at the back (Wise and Dunne) were prepared to make tackles and put their head in, and show some quality on the ball.

“We saw glimpses from Kenny that he’s got pace and he likes to try and put a cross in the box.”

Jonathan Obika, who has been struggling with a knock, was rested on Saturday, along with Raphael Branco, who had only recently recovered from illness.

Town unsurprisingly dominated possession early on, with Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill drawing a good save from Woking goalie Michael Poke early on whilst Yaser Kasim was narrowly off-target with a beautifully-controlled left-foot volley, which flew just wide of the far post.

But the hosts grew into the contest and late in the half, defender Jake Caprice stormed up the right flank and nutmegged both James Brophy and Ormonde-Ottewill with passes before crossing low from the right, with Gozi Ugwu dummying the ball to allow Zac Ansah a comfortable tap-in to make it 1-0.

Williams rang the changes at half-time but with so many untried players introduced, Town’s display became disjointed and Woking took full advantage.

Delano Sam-Yorke gleefully nodded home from close-range after Bryan Saah had headed a delivery from a corner back into the danger are and from another corner-kick in the 73rd minute, young stopper Will Henry was forced to use both hands to keep out Saah’s downward header.

With six minutes to go, defender Dunne tripped Sam-Yorke, who dusted himself down and slammed home his team’s third from 12 yards and Chike Kandi wasted the chance to make it 4-0 moments later, diverting a free header straight at Henry.

There was to be some late consolation for Town, with Ormonde-Ottewill taking out all of his frustration by crashing home a ferocious drive from the edge of the area.

SWINDON TOWN: Will Henry, Bradley Barry (Harly Wise 45), Nathan Thompson (Charles Dunne 45), Jamie Sendles-White (Jake Evans 45), Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill, Anton Rodgers (Tom Smith 45), Yaser Kasim (Jordan Stewart 45), Conor Thomas (Ellis Iandolo 45), John Goddard, Jermaine Hylton (Morgan Ferrier 45), James Brophy (Kenny McEvoy 45).

Sub not used: Lawrence Vigouroux.

Attendance: 654.