Yeovil Town boss Terry Skiverton insists his team will keep their heads held high despite their worrying slide towards the bottom end of League One.

The player-boss has thanked his side's supporters for continuing to back him after Tuesday's 4-0 defeat at Leeds United.

Today they make the 270-mile round trip to Brighton for a six-pointer.

Skiverton said: "I have got to thank the supporters who went up to the Leeds game. They seemed to all be there even after such a heavy defeat.

"I expected the whole away end to be empty but they were there and 100 per cent behind us. If they were angry they had a right to be angry but they clapped us and we clapped them.

"I feel the supporters are 100 per cent behind me and want the club to do well. That gives me strength and the squad positivity to go on.

"At the end of the day what we don't want to do is get our heads down and give up and throw in the towel.

"Realistically even if we had put in the performance of our lives at Leeds and got a point it wouldn't have improved our position much."

Brighton will, of course, be managed by former Yeovil chief Russell Slade, who was sacked last month.

However, he claims he holds no bitterness towards the Glovers.

"There's not, because I am a positive person," he said.

"I'm not really for looking back, I am somebody who looks forward to the next chapter. I am very much that way in life in general, so it doesn't affect me too much.

"Not only that, in my opinion I have come to a football club which, with all due respect to Yeovil, has more potential and is possibly more forward thinking and ambitious. "These are the factors which led me to jump at the opportunity to come to Brighton.

"Gary Johnson departed when Yeovil were second-bottom of this league. I didn't do that. We were eight points clear with a game in hand of the relegation zone.

"Since then, unfortunately for them, they have been sucked right back into it, which will obviously cause them a problem, but I'm not bitter about it."