Colin Kazim-Richards accepts recent results and performances are ‘beyond tiring’ for Crawley Town fans and says not making long trips to places like Grimsby Town is ‘understandable’.

The Reds boss himself is also tiring of opposition managers telling him how good his side is after losing - but he is fully focussed on turning it around.

Reds go into this weekend’s trip to Grimsby in 23rd place in the League Two table after just one win in the first six matches - with the last two games having been defeats to Accrington Stanley and Cheltenham.

After the latest loss, Kazim-Richards said he wanted fans to stay with the side and he says he knows the results will change.

Crawley Town boss Colin Kazim-Richards | Picture: Kyle Hemsley

placeholder image — Crawley Town boss Colin Kazim-Richards | Picture: Kyle Hemsley

But he also understands it’s not easy for fans to make long trips like Grimsby to support his side.

He said: “It's understandable. It's tough to go up there in this economy as well. Diesel right now is £2 a litre, train tickets are not cheap. What I will say is if you are not coming, watch the game, support if you can online, however you want to watch it. I hope you will watch it. If you are coming, it’s massive for us. It doesn't matter if there's 10, if there's 50 or there's 200, we appreciate everything and we see you.

“And it is tough when results are not going your way.”

Kazim-Richards and his players were booed at the final whistle against Cheltenham but the former Brighton striker understands that.

“I've always said fans are allowed to express their feelings,” he said. “It's not personal to me at all in terms of when they express it in terms of football, my whole career is in countries where fans do voice their opinion and 100 percent we take that and it's good because it gives you retrospective and it gives you things to look at.

“And it makes you go away and assess even more. So you use that, you understand, you use everything you can.”

After the Grimsby game, Reds might not have a league fixture for a couple of weeks due to the International break with the Barnet game (September 26) already postponed and the Walsall match on October 3 is also in doubt.

But they want to into the enforced break on a high with a win and Kazim-Richards is confident the results will change. He said: “I'm positive that the results, I know the results will change.

“They have to, they have to, you know. It does become tiring always hearing from other managers like ‘you lot are good but thanks, see you later’. It's becoming tiring, it is.

“It's beyond tiring for the fans but we are moving forward to change that around.”