CHELMSFORD City boss Mark Hawkes admitted he is having trouble trusting his players after recent individual errors handed Boreham Wood a comfortable 4-0 win on Saturday.
The Clarets gifted all four goals to the Conference South leaders and slipped down to 19th in the table.
And Hawkes insisted that the individual errors must stop if they are to claw themselves back up the league.
He said: "As a manager I have to trust the players that go on that park, but at the moment too many individual errors week after week are forcing me to look at the players I put out there. Because every time I put a team out, my job is in their hands at the moment and I have to start trusting a few people.
"It is just an accumulation of errors and it has to stop. I keep talking about the same thing week after week and again today we have conceded a penalty straight after half-time and conceded a goal, it has to stop.
"It is a very hard defeat to take because they didn't open us up in the first half. When we are down to ten and are 4-0 down they still haven't opened us up. The reason why we have lost is down to individual errors and individual errors only."
The defeat came off the back of a tremendous performance at Bromley the week before, in which the Clarets came away 1-0 winners.
But inconsistency once again struck, with the Clarets still unable to put back-to-back wins together this season.
Hawkes added: "It is very frustrating because you spend all week thinking about your team and tactics and also four or five hours' training making sure everything is right. Nothing changed from last week, except from two forced personnel, and we were superb last week and poor this week.
"Michael Cheek was unavailable but he will be back for next week, Rob Girdlestone is injured and will probably be out for three weeks."
Hawkes' men host Weston-super-Mare on Saturday, with the Seagulls currently lying 12th in the league.
