Crawley boss criticises recruitment after shock cup exit

Crawley Town interim manager Kevin Blackwell says the club's shock FA Cup defeat at Wimborne Town has laid bare the club's lack of "technical or physical players". Already bottom of League Two, the Reds' season reached a new low with their 2-0 loss away to the seventh-tier part-timers. "The recruitment of this football club over the last 12 months has left it in a bad position," he told BBC Radio Sussex . "We have neither [enough] technical or physical players. We've got some, not enough. And I am quite open about this." Blackwell's criticism came immediately after seeing his team lose to Wimborne, who are 57 places below them in the football pyramid. The former Sheffield United boss arrived to steady the ship after previous manager Colin Kazim-Richards was sacked. Seventh-tier Wimborne dump Crawley out of FA Cup Wimborne boss hails FA Cup run as 'incredible reward' But Blackwell says that his predecessor was also hamstrung by a lack of strength in depth. "The options for the coach, whether it was the guy before me or whoever, is limited off the bench," he added. "It's something we are actively looking at. The club pays decent wages - it should be higher up the league. "I've been impressed with what I've seen around the club but some of the technical side of the football, I'm really shocked with." Blackwell also claimed another manager had turned the Crawley job down following the club's defeat by Shrewsbury last month , while Kazim-Richards was still in charge. "I've come in to try and pick the club up and get some results, to maybe allow the club to look much more of an attractive proposition," he said. "The reason I came is that someone had already agreed to take the club, and then they lost to Shrewsbury and he decided he wouldn't come." All the latest Crawley Town news