WANDERERS served up a Halloween horror show at Leyton Orient – leaving a frustrated head coach Ian Evatt asking his dressing room if they are content with “being mediocre”.

Despite showing signs of improvement in games against Barrow, Cambridge and Bradford, the Whites completely went missing at Brisbane Road in their heaviest defeat of the season so far.

Evatt insists he can turn things around to mount the promotion challenge many had expected but after questioning whether his players had become “comfortable” and “too content” after recent results, he laid down another challenge to his players for tomorrow night’s home game against Mansfield.

“I’ve just said to them now, if they want to accept mediocrity and mediocre, if that’s what they want and they’re happy to be League Two footballers and be mid-table and win one week and lose the next then unfortunately that’s not what I want to do and how we want to do things,” Evatt said.

“Come and see me, I’ll shake your hand and I’ll wish you all the best and that’s it. But if you want to have standards driven every day and try and improve and try and implement standards and a way of playing that will make this football club proud of its team again, then let’s go and let’s crack on, because I’m ready to work.

“We’re all ready to work and we’re all trying really hard, so we all need to have a think this weekend and we all need to come back stronger.”

Wanderers have lost the services of another key striker in Nathan Delfouneso, who has suffered a hamstring injury that is likely to keep him out of the next couple of games.

Eoin Doyle and Muhammadu Faal are also side-lined, with Shaun Miller only recently returned to training after a calf problem.

Evatt questioned whether he could pitch Shaun Miller and Lloyd Isgrove into action against Mansfield.

“They’re back joining in parts of training,” he said. “The problem we’ve got is if we chuck them in too early we’ll end up breaking them down again and they’re going to be missing for two to three months.

“It’s a tough one at the moment but we can’t make excuses. We’ve got to find a way, I’ve got to find a way and I’ll go home and I’ll look in the mirror, analyse the game and try and figure out a plan to win a game of football on Tuesday.”