Hakan Hayrettin accused his Maidstone side of not liking the truth after their defeat at Bromley. Hayrettin kept the players in the dressing room for the best part of an hour following a 3-0 loss at Hayes Lane.
He had plenty to get off his chest, questioning their work rate off the ball and the defending for Bromley’s goals. The Stones boss, encouraged by Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw with Wealdstone, named an unchanged XI.
While it was the same names out there, the performance didn’t match what Hayrettin had seen five days earlier. “We take one step forward, two steps back,” he said. “Ultimately, I believe it’s when we’ve not got the ball, we’re not working hard. “You’ve got to stop the ball coming in the box, win your headers, win your phases. “When we’ve got the ball we look all right but you’ve got to work when you’ve not got the ball. “My honesty doesn’t really bode too well because they don’t like me telling them the truth, and I need to tell them the truth. “Against Wealdstone, we worked absolutely 100% very, very hard and we deserved to win, but we got a point. “Today, you defend like that, you’re never going to win. “I had stuff to say after the game. “I need to know why they can go from Tuesday and putting in a performance like that to coming here and capitulating. “It’s because we’re not working hard enough when we haven’t got the ball. “It can’t be perfect for them all the time, you’ve got to roll your sleeves up sometimes and swing till you come out the other end, and we’re not doing that. “That element of our game is a bit tender and it needs to be toughened up.
That’s the problem. “It’s not all doom and gloom but, me being me, I want to win every game. “I kick every ball and head every ball and when I see the