Sam Wood says he took to Twitter to make Wanderers fans see sense after the team was booed off by a section of the home support having lost against Newport County on Saturday.

The midfielder posted messages on the social network site after the 2-1 loss appealing for fans to see the bigger picture following back-to-back defeats at Adams Park.

A year on from coming perilously close to relegation from the Football League, Wanderers are now occupying an automatic promotion spot in League Two and Wood feels the expectations of some fans need to be tempered.

“The tweets were more to show people how far we’ve come,” he said. “They might have got carried away with the expectation of how well we’re doing, but we’ve lost two in 14, had an unbeaten run of 12 and the performances have been good it’s just a few bad results.

“I just thought I had to remind people of how well we’ve done so far and maybe not to judge so quickly with the boos. They just need to get behind us and we’ll put things right.

“I was just trying to make people realise how far we have come since last season. It wasn’t a dig or anything; I just wanted to get them to get back behind us for Saturday.”

Wanderers’ fans responded to Wood’s tweets by condemning those supporters that turned on the team following just their fifth defeat of the league campaign.

The 28-year-old was overwhelmed by the response from the Adams Park faithful and hopes they will be as vocal as ever when supporting the team at Brunton Park tomorrow.

He said: “Every tweet I got back was positive, I didn’t get any negativity from it which is good to see. Like I said, it wasn’t a dig at anyone it was just to make them realise how far we have come.

“The support I got back was fantastic and hopefully if we can take that into Saturday the travelling fans can get back behind us, support us and obviously it’s great to have our fans cheering us on through the good times and the bad.

“We’ve done a lot better than last year so hopefully they can stick with us and we can make it a good end to the season.”

Manager Gareth Ainsworth also heard the boos ring out from a section of the home support and he re-emphasised the message that with Blues third in League Two he hoped common sense would prevail.

He said: “People are entitled to their opinions. I look at the big picture some people may look at the small picture, and that’s the difference.

“Every fan in the Football League wants their team to do well and when they pay their money and don’t get the right result there is frustrations. It’s how they come out in different people and you’ve got to have tough skin in this job to brush it off and go again in the next game.”