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I've found a towel startles them and kind of complicates things, so just use my hands. I made my roosts waist height specifically to be able to access birds easily. I can barely get my hands around my cockbird to hold wings down, but got him used to handling when young so he doesn't fight it...

I do it all on my own, you can do it too. Just gotta practice handling the birds until you are all comfortable with it. I have a chair in my coop shed and wear a long apron which forms a sling between my knees when I sit down, put the bird there on it's back with it's butt toward my belly...

Please post pics of coop, inside and out. Roost may be too high for that small a coop. Do it well after dark, wearing a dim headlight, hold bird firmly with both hands around it body holding wings down until feet are on roost then slowly let go while pointing headlight up so they can't see...