Captain Joe Ellul was brutally honest in his assessment of Braintree Town's performance against Solihull Moors and was clear about what they needed to do to make sure there were no repeats.

Ellul felt the Iron "embarrassed" themselves in the second half of their Vanarama National League clash at Cressing Road on Saturday as a three-goal salvo in a 15-minute period just after the break set the visitors up for a 3-0 victory.

It was a toothless performance from the Iron and meant manager Hakan Hayrettin's first game back in charge as permanent Braintree manager was memorable for all the wrong reasons.

They looked a shadow of the side who had taken seven points from four league games under Hayrettin as caretaker manager and Ellul, the man who has been handed the captain's armband by the new boss, said players not sticking to the plans set out for them was what had been at fault.

“We need to stick to our strengths and that’s what Hakan and Danny have been telling us," said Ellul.

“We have so much pace and we need to use it.

“That’s what we are good at – getting forward quickly and breaking at pace but we carried way too many people in that game.

“There is only so much a back line can do to defend the goal for so long; eventually they got through and got one and we then crumbled.

“We dealt with it in the first half, but we crumbled in the second half.

“It was embarrassing and just not good enough.

“I can’t say anything more than that.

“We didn’t do our jobs in that game.

“Hakan keeps things simple for us.

“He gives you the information and it should be quite simple to stick to but it seems as though it went in one ear and out the other.

“It’s very basic info.

“Both he and Danny (Searle) both tell us the right things to do but we have implemented it in one game but then not another.

“Some people seemed to just do what they want to and not stick to the instructions that are being given.

“I wouldn’t say we played too well in either half to be honest.

“We knew what they would be about with getting the ball forward as early as possible and we just didn’t seem to deal with it.

“I’ll be honest, I thought we embarrassed ourselves in the second half.

“We didn’t perform at all and it’s not good enough."