Danny Butterfield felt that the timing of the first goal interrupted Saints' stride in the defeat to Rochdale.
The team had enjoyed much of the play in the opening 45 minutes, so to concede on the stroke of the interval, was a difficult to recover from.
"It's disappointing to concede at any time, but right on half time is obviously a bit of a blow because of the momentum that we had built up in the rest of the first half," he told Saints Player.
"It was disappointing to concede then, and we've come out second half having gathered our thoughts, trying to get it back.
"We all know that goals change games, so maybe if chances had gone in early then who knows what might have happened, but they didn't so we need to put things right as quickly as possible."
Danny revealed that there was much frustration after the game, but he remains confident that Saints will find their feet like they did last weekend at Bristol Rovers.
"Once again we're stood here after a game thinking, 'how have we actually lost the game?' I think we could have created more chances, but obviously we created possibly enough to win the game, so we're very frustrated after a loss at home again.
"The boys are very, very disappointed to lose another game here at St. Mary's, we're disappointed by the result and another game can't come soon enough.
"We've got to take our chances. We're obviously creating chances and as we showed at Bristol Rovers, once we do get a lead, there's no stopping our momentum and we look like we'll get five or six. Certainly at home, teams come here and camp with eleven men behind the ball, but it's important that we still believe that we can get goals and score goals on a regular basis, and at the other end we've got to stop conceding them."
Butterfield also reflected on the events of the past seven days, and feels that the long term objectives remain the only things to focus on.
"That's football. We had the cup game followed by today where we've conceded three times and then twice so that doesn't sit nicely in the stomach, and as players it's up to us to put that right quickly.
"There'll be mixed feelings from everybody, but we can't dwell on what happens between a manager being appointed, we've got to look at ourselves on a Saturday and make sure we perform right to get the results here at St. Mary's.
"The manager is something for the Chairman to deal with. We're employed by the club and we need to put performances in on the pitch that are better than the one we put in today, so we need to look at ourselves and make sure that we do things right on the pitch whether there's a manager in place or not.
"It's a long old season and certainly in the dressing room we still all believe that we're going to be there or thereabouts at the end of the season."
