Terry Connor: This can't go on

Terry Connor today admitted "the mistakes can't go on" as QPR blasted a huge hole in Wolves' Premier League survival prospects.

Rangers' 3-2 comeback win over Liverpool last night – after they scored three times in the last 13 minutes – left the Molineux men three points from the safety line and with a vastly inferior goal difference with nine games left.

Connor, however, is confident the penny had finally dropped with his players after a succession of cheap goals against.

Wolves have leaked 19 in their last five games, and, asked if there was a realisation that the sequence can't continue, Connor confessed: "If we want to stay in the Premier League, it can't go on. I think the fact we've got nine games left and are bottom focuses the mind.

"The same mistakes may have come from different players in September, October and November, but they're not highlighted as much because there were only eight, nine or 10 games gone.

"Now we're in the business end of the season where things are magnified because everyone can see we've got fewer games left to put it right."

Wolves have trailed in 23 games this season and by 2-0 or more in 14 of those – including all of Connor's four – and he admitted they can't afford to fall behind.

"If we make a mistake that allows the opposition to score, we're not giving ourselves a full chance to win," he said.

"Rather than having a chance to win we're making it into a mountain.

"If we can address that, we'll have a much better chance."

Connor insisted Wolves' plunge to the bottom wasn't a psychological blow.

"Being bottom means you're only going one way – back up," he argued. "So that's what we've got to do.

"If we get one win, we can be within goal difference of being out of the bottom three.

"That's what we have to focus on. We've got Norwich next, and if we can win, that will change everyone's perceptions."