MANAGER Les Parry aims to find a remedy on the training ground for the costly slump in Tranmere Rovers results over the last month.

Parry suspects Rovers moved away from playing to their strengths during a six game sequence in which they took one point from four league outings and went out of two cup competitions.

He wants to dedicate a two-week break from competitive action to the job of readjusting Tranmere’s pattern of play, so they can find the balance that brought them success during the early months of the season.

An idea to arrange a friendly match to fill the coming weekend’s free Saturday has been abandoned, in favour of a day’s work on the training pitch.

Parry said: “I think the break is coming at a good time for us. I am happy that we have time to look at what we need to do and get some work done.”

Last Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Exeter City saw Tranmere drop down to 12th place in the table – five points adrift of the play-off zone.

Parry said: “I think we have lost something we had as a team a few weeks ago. We’ve started getting away from the things that got us into a decent position in the first place.”

Parry reckons the difficulties Tranmere are experiencing now may have their root in the period of positive form that pushed them to the edge of the top six towards the end of October.

“We were doing particularly well,” Parry said. “We were beaten on one or two occasions but there were very few games in which we did not play well. Because of that, we started to alter the way we played a little bit. We started getting away from the hard work and stopping the opposition from playing.

“We started to try and play a little bit more from the back. We’ve been losing possession a lot, which isn’t our game.