Head coach Martin Allen says Barnet’s school report after 11 league games would read “can do better” with the Bees 19th in League Two ahead of Saturday’s visit from Accrington Stanley (kick-off 3pm).

Back-to-back wins over Stevenage and Dagenham & Redbridge have quickly been forgotten after consecutive losses at Plymouth Argyle and AFC Wimbledon. Though it was at Kingsmeadow where the Bees were most underwhelming.

Looking ahead to Saturday’s visit from seventh-placed Stanley, Allen acknowledged there was still plenty of room for improvement.

He told the club’s website: “We’re a quarter of the way through the season now and I think we’re doing ok.

“But if I was a school teacher writing a report, I would put on it: ‘This team has done ok but there is definitely room for improvement, and they can do better.’

“I include myself in that, not just the players. We are all as one, and I think we can all do better.”

The post-mortem following a 2-0 loss at Wimbledon last weekend began on Saturday evening and continued on Monday morning when – contrary to their normal routine – the players reported for training at The Hive.

Allen said: “I must admit that I was upset; I went to watch Michael McIntyre on Sunday night and I don’t think that I heard one joke that he said.

“All I’ve done is think about the weekend and what I could have done better – what I could have done and should have done.

“We’re never going to know the answers, but some of the options that I had were a little bit limited.

“So I had all the players in on Monday, which is a little bit unusual for us – to talk about things and hear their points of view.

“I gave them Tuesday off, and now for this next game we’ve got them in for three days; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.”

Barnet will give several players fitness tests prior to Saturday’s clash with John Coleman’s side but Allen kept the identity of those players to himself.

Goalkeeper Graham Stack (calf/hip flexor), striker Kevin Lisbie (hamstring), defender Bira Demble (groin) and versatile forward Shaun Batt all missed the defeat at Kingsmeadow last time out.

Accrington have been one of the division’s surprise packages so far this season but saw an eight-game unbeaten run halted with a 3-1 loss at home to Oxford United last weekend.

But boss Coleman, now in his second stint at the Crown Ground, is not looking to sacrifice an entertaining brand of football in the search for points on the road, where Stanley are unbeaten in four.

He told the club’s website: “We want to be hard to beat and we don’t change our style of football away from home.

“I would like us to make more chances, score more goals and be entertaining but we want to win games whatever way. I don’t mind how we go about it as long as we win.

“If we need to dig out 1-0 wins then we have got a team which is capable of doing that.”

Stanley are expected to welcome defender Dean Winnard back from injury but Joe Wright, who is on international duty with Wales Under-21s, is expected to miss the game.