"We called the players in for a chat to see how everybody feels, clear the air and draw a line under it."
Under what exactly? The poor performances? The inability to defend and keep a clean sheet? Is it that easy to just pull them in on Sunday and "draw a line under it" so we start winning again? If so then this suggests the players were deliberately not trying!
This is of course wasn't what he meant, he couldn't have so it must be true about team discord and "loss of dressing room" that gets bandied about far too regularly. You could see by some players mannerisms that they felt a certain way so let's hope this works and they perform for the manager again - I guess he had no choice as I would guess he is the last chance saloon. Whatever way you look at it we are in trouble if this simple piece of team leadership doesn't have an effect!