'It's not time rest, it's time to wake up', says Crawley Town boss as they enter enforced break after MK Dons defeat
Colin Kazim-Richards says the next two weeks will be ‘ramped up’ following their 4-1 defeat to MK Dons in the Jersey Mikes Trophy.
It was the Reds fourth consecutive defeat and the International break could not have come at better time.
With the Barnet and Walsall games being postponed due to International call-ups, Reds do not play again until Tuesday October 6 when they host Bromley in the Jersey Mikes competition and are back in League Two action when they host Chesterfield on Saturday October 10.
Ad=fter the Grimsby defeat Kazim-Richards said there will be a reset and in his MK Dons post-match he outlined what the next fortnight looks like.
“The next two weeks is ramped up,” he said. “It will be back to basics. It will be not switching off when it's like restarts from a throw or from a free kick. It's not time to rest. It's time to wake up. “It's time to switch on even more. Limiting our mistakes when we become fatigued and we've got some good time to be able to do that. “We've got some bounce games as well. I know we're not allowed to say who they are, but obviously we've got some bounce games that we can really also go into detail with and work on literal specific things in game, which is good.”
The Reds boss picked a much-changed side for the trip to Stadium MK and apart from the scoreline, he said he got what he wanted from the game.
He said: "I thought first half, apart form the two I thought we did really well for 40 minutes. I thought we did good. I thought we were dangerous in some parts.
“Again, similar to limiting our mistakes again but it was obviously a very inexperienced team, not really played too much to date.
“But in terms of the first half, I thought we did well. Second half, we started well again.
“And then penalty, went against us...then after that, again, another goal. But the boys stayed in it to try and get their goal back.
“And we did create some chances again. But all in all, from this game, what I wanted, I got.”
And he had praise for players making their first starts for the club this season. “I thought Lewis Richards was top,” he said.
“I thought he was really good. I thought he was back to the old Lewis Richards that we know, which is something that we've been working on.”
"I thought Justin [Ferizaj] put in a great shift. [Nathan] Tinsdale put in a good shift and looked very good at times. So all in all, from what I wanted away from the result, I thought I got.”