'We can only blame ourselves' - Crawley Town winger gives honest assessment after Cheltenham Town defeat
Crawley Town have to ‘claw and claw’ to get a result and turn their season around, according to winger Harry Forster after their 3-0 defeat at Cheltenham Town.
After a goalless first half, Reds fell apart and three goals in 14 minutes condemned them to another defeat – making it ten league without a win.
With all but two League Two games postponed because of the weather, Scott Lindsey’s men have not moved position in the table, but all the teams around them now have a game in hand.
Reds now have a two week break before being back in action against Notts County on Saturday, January 17. And speaking to Gary Smith from BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex, Forster said they need to find a result from somewhere to get their tails up and build confidence.
"I think that's what it's going to have to be,” he said. “We had a period of maybe six weeks ago now where we had a couple of really good results.
“We beat Fleetwood and we beat Bristol Rovers and it seemed like we had a bit of momentum, went into Gillingham and we got a really good point there where we could have easily won. So I think it's that win. You need to go on that mini-run again where you get that first win.
“You somehow get it over the line. We've just got to do anything. We've got to claw and claw and grind out a result at the minute.
“I think once we do that, then the confidence changes, our tails are up and we can really get some proper results. At the minute, I don't like saying things aren't going for us because it's up to us to make our own luck and we're not doing that. So we can only blame ourselves at the moment.”
And when asked if it was a confidence or a psychological thing for the players because they have gone so long without a win, Forster said: “I mean, in my mind, no. It's definitely not. It's a subconscious thing, maybe. But at the forefront of my mind, there's nothing telling me or telling the team to go under once we concede a goal.
“But it just seemed like it was one of those games where they weren't creating a huge amount from open play. Like I said, it was going to be a set piece. It was going to be a corner, which has happened to us a fair bit this season.
“I think we've just got to really clamp down on them, to be honest, because you don't concede the pile-on from the corners and the free kicks that we do. It's a nil-nil and you half take that away from home. It's a tough place to come and you go again. But it’s been a completely different story.”
Woth Cambridge United still in the FA Cup, Reds do not have a game next weekend and Forster believes that's a good thing with the five new additions to the side.
"90% of the time, it is a positive where you have a bad result and you want that next game in three days' time to put that right,” he said.
“You quickly put it behind you. But at the stage of the season where we're at, where we haven't picked up a huge amount of points recently, we've had a lot of games in quick succession. We've had quite a few signings now and I'm sure there'll be more to come to help us.
“I think it's the perfect time for a couple weeks break now to really embed the new signings into the team, get the fluidity going on the training ground and really get us going again.”