Ex-Devonshire Colts’ boss Kieshon Smith has hit out at some of the relegation-threatened club’s players saying they are more concerned with the colour of their boots than training.Smith quit as Colts’ boss on Wednesday, after running out of patience with the poor attitudes of several of his players who continually failed to show up to training.He pointed to the defeat to Somerset Trojans in the Premier Development League final as the straw that broke the camel’s back.Despite reaching the final, Colts were amazingly unable to field a full team because some players did not bother to turn up, and Smith said it was then that he realised he had to leave.Technical director Jay Bean will now take up the post after Smith recommended him to president Lee Holder.“The PDL final broke me down a bit considering we didn’t have a full team for the final,” said Smith. “We have an excellent core group of players in Coolridge Durham, Kyle Jones, McQuinn Burch, Enrique Wilkin, and Lozendro Symonds, and a few others but it is a team effort and we are always fighting from behind and they need the support.“We were in a final, and only played with nine players, I have never known of any final that a team couldn’t get a full squad.“Anybody playing in a final in my era was up and ready for the big game. You would have 20 guys out there looking for a spot and for us to not have the numbers to compete I was very disappointed and felt bad for the guys who came and gave it their all.“We held our own in the final and I told the president at that point ‘I don’t know if I can do this anymore’.”Smith blames the poor attitudes of players for contributing to the degeneration of football on the Island and suspects that several Premier Division coaches experience the same problems he faced as Colts coach.The current generation of Bermuda footballers do not take the game as serious as their predecessors, according to Smith, and will therefore continually miss out on the life-changing opportunities available to them.“The guys in this generation are more concerned with the colour of their boots than training,” said Smith, who replaced Ray Jones as Colts’ coach two-and-a-half years ago.“It takes a lot to become a good footballer, and when you look at the players Islandwide who watch television and try to do what they see there is nonsense. There is no way that you can do what your favourite player does if you don’t train and take the game seriously.“There is a lot of talent in Bermuda and we have a lot of opportunities out there.“If those opportunities had been available ten to 15 years ago, I can guarantee that we would have a truckload of players overseas.“I don’t know why this generation of players play the game. Players find excuses to not come training and when they aren’t picked they get an attitude.”Stepping down as Colts’ coach had been a tough decision, said Smith, who will continue to coach the Knights in the Island Soccer League.He leaves the club sitting at the foot of the table but still believes they have the ability to claw their way out of the relegation zone.“At the end of the day, regardless of who is coaching the team, if the players feel they don’t have to train then there’s no reason to be here,” he said.“I don’t mind sacrificing myself and my time if these guys put their best foot forward to get us out of the current situation we are in.“I’ve won everything with the club, I’m orange and black all the way, I was doing this for free as I wanted to give back to the club that helped make me.”“Players have to be serious and in our case we’re fighting off relegation.“For too long we’ve had the same eight or nine guys giving everything they have for nothing, because not everyone has the same mentality.”