Steve Castle 'not impressed as Royston duo see red

The Crows lost their sixth away game of the season on the South coast as John Frendo and January signing Sam Gaughran saw straight reds, Frendo sent walking for ‘undefendable’ abusive language in the first-half.

Crows boss Steve Castle said: “There’s a few in the squad on their last warnings. It really is affecting us and they should fear for their job if they keep offending.

“I love to defend my players to the hilt but I’m sorry, I can’t defend the abusive language of Frendo. Everyone heard what was said and the manner it was said. It was disappointing.

“I don’t want to lose anyone but there’s no point giving final warnings and then keeping them because they’ll think I’m too soft. You have to set precedents.

“The chairman and I will be talking to Frendo, as we did Sam Corcoran, about how we’re going to move forward with it.”

While Castle said he has seen a ‘definite’ improvement in Corcoran’s behaviour, after the midfielder was sent off twice at the start of the season, the legendary former Leyton Orient captain was frustrated with his side’s disciplinary record.

He added: “We’re a competitive team but we’ve had far too many sendings off and it’s cost us at times.

“We’d had a very good spell of discipline since Christmas but we’ve got back into silly old habits and it cost us dearly on Saturday.

“It’s unfortunate, they’re a good group of lads but these things are letting the whole team down.”

Source Royston Crow