ALAN KIMBLE sent out a warning to his Maldon & Tiptree players after a fifth red card in four games played a part in them losing 5-3 to Great Wakering on Saturday.
Alberto Pinto saw red with the score at 2-2 and the Maldon boss has had enough of the players' indiscipline.
"I've got to do something drastic and they will be dealt with by the football club and me internally. I can't condone the sending off yet again and I need to do something about it," said Kimble.
"We can't keep playing with [ten men] and getting players sent off, and if their discipline doesn't improve, I can't have those people around the football club who are ill-disciplined.
"I need 11 players on the pitch for us to get anything out of football matches and they're letting me down, the club down, the chairman down, the players down and themselves down and I've got to nip it in the bud now.
"That's four games with five players that have been sent off and our disciplinary record is diabolical at the moment.
"The buck stops at me, so I've got to do something about it. Everyone will know what's in hand because I can't have people here just picking money up, I need people fighting for the cause, that want to play for Maldon and Tiptree.
"I'm not going to tinker too much with the players that have done fantastically for me but in the last two games the sending offs have cost us."
Kimble is hoping once the discipline has been sorted out that his side can soon return to the form that saw his side start to climb the Ryman North table, but admits they need to cut out silly mistakes.
"We're going through a little bit of a sticky patch at the moment but the one thing you do is you stick together, you all work hard in training and then put it right in the matches and that's what we'll be doing," said Kimble.
"At the moment we're giving too many soft goals away in all departments. It's not just the back four, the defending starts from the front.
"In the Harlow game they all worked their socks off and got in their faces and on Saturday we did that to an extent but the sending off cost us again.
"That's nine goals conceded in two games and if we want to climb out of the bottom then we need to start getting clean sheets, start being hard to beat home and away.
"We've got to quickly address the situation, which we have, and you'll see a different Maldon and Tiptree team on Saturday, not in personnel, but in terms of discipline.
"We just need to consolidate this season to get a bit of stability, stay in the league which we will without a shadow of a doubt, but then we're going to kick on from next season."
