Manager Hakan Hayrettin was disappointed that his Braintree Town players missed the chance to show their strengths in front of a national television audience as the Iron crashed to a 3-0 defeat at Cressing Road.

Hayrettin said his team got "out-bullied" by Solihull Moors in a Vanarama National League game played in front of BT Sport cameras and felt it was a shame that they were unable to meet the levels they had in his previous games in charge.

The fixture was Hayrettin's first since being appointed as permanent Braintree manager and followed four National League outings in caretaker charge when the team had taken seven points from four games.

However, they were blown away by a physically robust Solihull side, who wrapped up the points with three goals in a 15-minute spell directly after half-time.

Hayrettin, who kept his players in the dressing room for 30 minutes after the final whistle, said: “Our performance was not at the levels that it has been since I have been here and I just wanted to let them know that they need to do better.

“We knew how Solihull would play; we knew that that they’d be direct.

“They don’t look to play any football whatsoever and that’s fine, that’s their prerogative and you play to your strengths.

“They are very good at what they do and they did it really well, but we have to do better.

“We must be much better in certain areas.

“I like to think that my teams typify me and what our players did in that 15 to 20-minute period after half-time did not typify me at all.

“If you are going to do something, do it with passion or not at all.

“I think we let ourselves down in the second half and the players needed to be told because, when you’re in a fight, you swing until you come out the other end.

“However, I didn’t see enough fight.

“I did (in games) previously and I’m wondering if it was the way that they played and sort of out-muscled us in certain areas.

“They are a physical side and they play to their strengths; they are good at what they do so you can’t take anything away from them as they were better than us in that first 15 to 20 minutes of the second half.

“That’s when they got their goals and we need to grow up and realise what we need to do to rectify that.

“What was disappointing was that we didn’t show people at home watching on television what we are capable of and what we have done.

“Sometimes, as a manager, you just scratch your head and ask yourself ‘why did that happen?’ but I think we just got out-bullied.

“We got roughed up by men and now we have to go again.”