Guy Butters today urged Albion to go back to basics to halt their losing run.

The veteran centre half believes the Seagulls should adopt a siege mentality at high-flying Scunthorpe tomorrow and "maybe kick a few".

Albion go to Glanford Park on the back of five straight defeats, the latest last Sunday's 3-0 surrender to Blackpool at Withdean.

Butters admits sitting through video re-runs of the match at home afterwards and then again after training on Monday made for embarrassing viewing.

"We know we've got to stop the rot and we've got to get on and do it," said Butters, 37 later this month.

"We've been working on certain things this week like clearances, getting good contact on the ball instead of just skying them up in the air.

"We felt we played a bit too narrow in midfield and we've been trying to work on that as well, to get a bit of width.

"I think we need a siege mentality and to maybe even go back to basics. I don't know what system we are going to play but we need to all stick together and make it difficult for them to score against us, which we haven't been doing in recent weeks, and maybe kick a few.

"I know it sounds very crude but like I say go back to basics, the old school, get in amongst people and not give them a chance to put their foot on the ball and do what they want, which I think we did on Sunday against Blackpool.

"In this division who knows? You get one win and you can go on and get three or four on the trot and be right back up there again."

Even cultured manager Dean Wilkins is promising a more agricultural approach. He said: "We are working on the defensive shape as much as anything, because it's clearly a problem when you are conceding goals like we are week in week out.

"We're trying to make sure we are tighter defensively and from that we are going to be probably slightly more direct than we have ever been."

Captain Richard Carpenter and Adam El-Abd are among the players whose places could be under threat following the Blackpool debacle.