Under-pressure Walsall head coach Mat Sadler says he will keep "fighting and believing" that he can get the club's stuttering promotion bid back on track despite another poor result at home.
Monday's 2-0 defeat by MK Dons extended the Saddlers' winless run at the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium to five games and their overall sequence without a victory to seven.
The result further dented the former League Two leaders' play-off aspirations, with the club three points behind seventh-placed Chesterfield, albeit with a game in hand on the Spireites.
"There's a little bit of maybe playing at home with our shoulders drooped, looking not to make a mistake rather than being on the front foot, creating something, and making something happen," Sadler told BBC Radio WM.
"When you're going through these spells, the only way out of them is being brave and at the moment we're falling the other side of that.
"We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We've got a choice to make. We can accept that 'it's going to be difficult at home and we're not enjoying it' or we can do something about it."
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Walsall's last home win was on 26 December, when they beat Crewe, and were a point clear at top of the table.
But only one victory since then - at Tranmere on 17 January - has left last season's beaten play-off finalists off the pace in their bid to go one better this term.
Nevertheless, Sadler is remaining confident the squad has what it takes to rediscover their form.
"I know there's a team in there that has been very consistent this season, so we have to believe that," he said.
"We're going through a tough run at the moment - which is a difficult time to go through it - so the quicker we get out of it the better."
Asked whether he feels the club "is still with him" in the light of the board's recent statement over results, Sadler replied in the affirmative.
"I've got a fantastic relationship with everyone at the club, through good times and bad times and that will stay the same," he added.
"Football's a brutal business at times - you can be the perfect man for the job a month ago and then that changes but it changes back very quickly.
"I'll be fighting and keep believing that we'll get back on that front foot and play the way we've always played. You have to, otherwise what's the point?"
Walsall travel to rejuvenated Shrewsbury Town in their next game on Saturday [12:30 GMT].