RYAN Leonard is sure Southend United can soon get their season back on track, despite Friday night's defeat to Bradford City.

The shock 1-0 reverse at Roots Hall extended Blues' run without a win to six matches.

But Leonard is certain Paul Sturrock's side will quickly get back on track.

“We have the players, manager and backroom staff here to get ourselves going again and kick on,” said the fit again winger.

“The manager will have been through things like this in his career before and we just need to work hard and dig in to get that win.

“It was only a little while ago we went 17 games unbeaten and we haven't just suddenly become a bad team so we all believe we will get through this and start to do well again.”

However, for that to happen, Leonard knows Blues must play better than they did against Bradford.

Southend struggled to create clear cut goalscoring chances against the Bantams.

And Leonard felt the visitors deserved to win the game.

“We're all very frustrated because we just didn't play well enough to get the three points and Bradford were the better team on the night,” said Leonard, 19.

“We didn't make enough chances, we didn't pass the ball enough and we just didn't do enough in general to get the win which was very disappointing.”

Blues are now not back in action until Boxing Day when they head to Aldershot.

But Leonard feels the break will be of benefit to the team.

“I think this gap in the fixtures has come at a good time for us,” said the former Plymouth Argyle trainee.

“It will give us time to go through things on the training ground and to think about what's gone wrong.

“For me personally it will also give me some time to work on improving my fitness.

“After missing a month and only returning last weekend I'm still a little bit behind with my sharpness.

“But that will be better by the time we go to Aldershot and hopefully we can all produce a much better performance there to get ourselves and our season back on track again.”