WHILE he had already brought in four new players ahead of his team's Vanarama National League game against Solihull Moors, manager Hakan Hayrettin said Braintree Town's display showed that further changes may be swiftly following.

The Iron were well below par in a 3-0 defeat as they failed to match the levels shown during the games when Hayrettin was in caretaker charge of the team ahead of being permanently appointed for a second spell at the Iron helm.

And with the manager branding the display as "disgraceful", he said it was a performance that had left him with thinking to do.

“I learned a lot from that game," he said.

“When I was given the job, I didn’t want to make changes as I said it would be unfair on the boys when I was caretaker manager.

“If I started bringing in players then and the club gave the job to someone else, then it wouldn’t be fair on them.

“Now I have been given the job, I am seeing things that will maybe sway me to bring in other players and maybe I will do that.

“I have said on numerous occasions that there isn’t one player in the squad with National League experience prior to this season.

“I’ve spoken about that before, but you have to learn the job while you’re doing the job and they’ve made me wonder whether I need to bring players in.

“I’ve already brought in some players who I feel will enhance the squad to maybe come in off the bench but now I really need to look at who is starting.

“I have to look at it again because I didn’t like the way that we let in three goals.

“To be honest, it was disgraceful.

“We had seen so much of the way that Solihull play and we knew that if we weathered the storm of how they would come at us and then break with pace, then we would get something from it.

“But we never kept the ball and didn’t move it in the way that we have in the time since I’ve been here.

“There’s no point in me saying something that wasn’t how everyone saw; I might as well say it how it was and that’s how it was.

“Should I protect my players?

"No, not on that performance.

“I thought some of them just didn’t put in a shift.

“So I’m looking at changes, but the concern is making too many changes.

“That’s why I only brought in one (goalkeeper George Legg) who started against Solihull, but if you don’t make changes and you keep losing, people will question you.

“I saw the signs that experience was needed when I first came here and I’m trying to bring one or two in but we need to defend better than how we did.

“Everyone has to work harder without the ball, but they just didn’t do it."