'I've changed it and I'm willing to change it again' - Crawley Town boss says he will do what he needs to do to get better
Colin Kazim-Richards says he is willing to change his side again as he aims to improve results – but says the players have got to have ‘a little bit of a personal desire to want to understand the small wins’.
Reds fell to the bottom of the League Two table after a 2-0 defeat to Grimsby Town – their fifth loss of the season.
The Reds boss has already used 24 players in the first seven league games of the season. And for the Grimsby game, he made three changes to the starting line-up from Cheltenham defeat, which in turn had three changes from the Accrington loss the week before.
But Kazim-Richards said he is willing to change it again going forward. “I've changed it and I'm willing to change it again and try and get better and always aim to be better,” he said. “But it's got to be a little bit of a personal desire to want to understand the small wins.
“Win the small wins. That's something that I've always said.
“Then it becomes a bigger picture. I think at the moment maybe we're focussing too much on the big win, but not doing our small win jobs.”
The former Brighton striker guided Crawley to safety by just one point at the end of the last season and Reds became harder to beat in this final seven games.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case this season, conceding 13 goals already and only winning one game.
“I don't think that it's like we're not hard to beat anymore," said Kazim-Richards. “I think what it is is teams know now maybe if they can score, when they do score, maybe for 10-15 minutes, we're feeling sorry for ourselves.
“Then we wake up. It's like we're going 2-0 down at the moment to wake up. If the game started at 2-0, maybe we'd be better because now we're under pressure.
“We wait for that. We go through moments where we're not as consistent as we should be. Simple as that. Making basic errors. It's not a preparation thing in the details. The players are prepped.
“It's just switching off at the wrong moments at the wrong times.”
Reds face MK Dons on Tuesday night in the EFL Trophy.