GARY MacKenzie admits talk is cheap and only actions can make up for City blowing more play-off points.

The squad are on a warm-weather training break in the south of Portugal until tomorrow afternoon as they take advantage of a rare free midweek.

But centre half MacKenzie would rather be playing again – to get the bitter frustration of the draw against Fleetwood straight out of the system.

He said: “When you lose two points like that you want to get back on the pitch as quickly as possible.

“We just stopped making the right decisions and let them get a bit of hope in a game when they should have had none. It’s that simple.

“We don’t need to go away and talk about it for a few days. That’s what happened.

“I thought we felt it was too easy and had the game wrapped up. We started making silly decisions and then suddenly let them back in it.

“In saying that, we can go away together, regroup and take the positives out of Saturday because for 70 minutes we were really good.

“Unfortunately a football match lasts 90 and we didn’t do enough to see it through.

“But there are ten massive games now and hopefully if we’re in that position again then we’ll learn from it.”

City are five points behind Peterborough, who have taken over the final play-off spot, with two games in hand. But MacKenzie is still cursing the way they blew a “comfortable” win at the weekend and allowed Fleetwood to hit back with a late double.

“The last 15 minutes of the game were terrible,” he added. “We were so comfortable and I felt Fleetwood had almost accepted it that we were better than them.

“We just started going through the motions and stopped doing the right things.

“After about 75 minutes you just sensed we were going away from what we had done.

“You try to lift the boys but we weren’t pushing, we were pulling out of tackles and doing little flicks. We came away from what we’d been doing so well.

“It’s so frustrating. I was telling the boys and trying to get a spark back just to see the game through.

“But for every bad pass or wrong decision we made, you could see it lifted Fleetwood and gave them a wee bit of hope.

“They shouldn’t have had any. They hadn’t had a sniff in the game because we had dominated for so long.

“You could feel the nerves when they got the (first) goal so late. Then it was wave after wave of attacks as they threw bodies forward and got a break of the ball in the box.

“We’ll take the point but that’s not going to be good enough at this stage of the season. To throw it away like that is very hard to take.”