Stoke City skipper Glenn Whelan slammed their performance for Saturday's FA Cup defeat at Blackburn Rovers.
The Potters were thumped 4-1.
"It was terrible. It was the worst performance I've ever seen a Stoke City side put out; we didn't want to fight or do the basics," he told The Sentinel.
"Fair play to Blackburn, they came out and properly dug us out.
"We weren't prepared to work hard enough. It's ok when things are going well, we've got good players then but when you want to fight and you want to knuckle down maybe we haven't got enough in the dressing room.
"Hopefully the manager has seen that today and will show it next week because it's just not good enough; as a team, as an 11. Players didn't really want to be out there and you could see that after the first 10 minutes. Credit to Blackburn they deserved to go through."
