JACK Payne has urged Southend United to stick together and learn from their mistakes after they suffered a 4-1 drubbing at Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday.

Payne fired the Shrimpers in front with a well taken early goal.

But the close range finish proved to be worthless as table topping Wycombe surged back to claim a comprehensive win.

“We’re a solid team and when we do lose it’s normally by the odd goal so to lose 4-1 is hard to take and very frustrating indeed,” said Payne.

“However, after a disappointment like this we all have to stick together and we also need to learn from what went wrong.

“We need to look at the goals we conceded and then try to make sure we don’t make those mistakes again in the games we have coming up.”

The defeat, which was Blues’ heaviest in the league since they lost to Swindon Town by the same score-line in January 2012, saw Phil Brown’s side slip down to eighth in the League Two table.

And the final score-line also meant Payne took little satisfaction from his goal.

“It was a dream start and it’s obviously always nice to score but it didn’t really mean very much in the end,” said the youngster.

“The goal must have come after about a minute but we weren’t at it for most of the game and you can’t afford to do that at places like this because Wycombe are a good team and that’s why they are obviously top of the league.”

Blues trailed 2-1 at the break and their hopes of a comeback were hit hard at the start of the second half when Jerome Binnom-Williams was sent off for a strong challenge on Chairboys midfielder Josh Scowen.

But Payne, who was the closest Southend player to the incident, did not agree with the decision.

“From my angle it didn’t look like a red card and it didn’t even really look like a foul to be honest,” said the attacking midfielder.

“It looked like he got the ball and it made it even more difficult for us after that.”