ANDY Whing blasted his Solihull Moors team following a 2-1 defeat at Eastleigh and felt some of his players did not want to run.
Early goals from Jake Taylor and Paul McCallum left Moors with a mountain to climb inside 10 minutes before Bradley Stevenson netted a consolation for the visitors in injury time at the Silverlake Stadium.
Moors boss Whing felt the performance was one of the worst of his tenure and insists his side must go back to basics after an underwhelming start to the campaign.
Whing said: “The performance was nowhere near it, it was as poor as it’s probably been even last season, we can’t kid ourselves just because we scored a late goal.
“I take full responsibility for that, I’m the manager, I pick the team, I don’t think I’ve got too much wrong since I’ve been here.
“There’s too many players miles off it, too many players coming in who think they’re better than what they are and don’t want to run.
“My team over the last 12 months work hard on and off the ball, we just have to get the basics right and forget about patterns and tactics.
“I had no confidence in us coming back [from two goals down] because we’re not anywhere near where we want to be.
“The players have got to show up and be better, it was a really poor performance. We have to move on really quickly.
“[I want to see] a lot more this weekend, lads willing to run and fight and do the basics right.”
The home side almost took the lead inside the first minute as Moors goalkeeper Laurie Walker pushed Lloyd Humphries’ effort from distance to safety.
And the visitors fell behind on three minutes as Moors coughed up possession inside their own penalty area and McCallum squared the ball to Taylor who finished from eight-yards out.
Things went from bad to worse for Moors on 10 minutes as McCallum headed Scott Quigley’s floated cross from the right into the bottom right corner from six-yards out.
Eastleigh went close again soon after as Walker sprung to his right to push Quigley’s half-volley from 25-yards out behind for a corner.
Moors looked to respond after the break as Joe Newton delivered a dangerous cross from the left which just evaded Conor Wilkinson in the middle.
Former Moors man Tyrese Shade almost sealed the points for Eastleigh but fired wide following a quick counter attack.
Moors eventually halved the deficit in injury time when substitute Stevenson headed in Sam Bowen’s cross from six-yards-out but were unable to find an equaliser in the remaining minutes.
Solihull are next in action against Braintree Town on Saturday, August 24 with kick-off at 3pm at Damson Park.
