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Turner pleased with Green
Graham Turner gave an interview to Trevor Owens for BBC Hereford and Worcester this morning. HU-FC.co.uk have printed an edited version below. Turner started by talking about Gravesend who the Bulls play tomorrow.
"We had Gravesend watched at Stevenage on Tuesday where they got a good point despite being reduced to ten men for a long period of the game. So we know it's not going to be easy but we have got enough about us now to both start well and, on the evidence of a couple of home games this season, finish the games well. And it's vital when you have got teams like Gravesend coming that you get off to a good start. It's vital we get at them before they are allowed to settle into their game-plan and I think we are more than capable of doing that.
"Gravesend we know have not had the best of starts to the season, they are not the biggest club in the Conference but despite that I think they have a lot of spirit about them. Their manager is full of enthusiasm and they will come and scrap for everything. So it is up to us to get off to a good start and so it has got to be a fortress here at Edgar Street if we are going to do anything. Out of twenty one games at home you have to be winning seventeen or eighteen so certainly games like this you have to be taking the three points if we have any promotion asperations.
"None of the opposition is ever going to make life easy for us and I thought Telford was a case in point. Very experienced side and a lot of people fancy them to be right up there at the start of the season, particually because of the heavy investment that has been put into the club through the close season. I thought first half we totally out played them. We dominated the game and should really have gone in at half time with the game won.
"There was always that fear with the experience they have got in the side, the quality of players, that they were going to give us problems and I thought they did second-half especially going down the slope. We weathered it in the main very well. I thought they had a little bit of luck with their goal, a deflection off Tony James, left it loping onto Lee Mills' head for the equaliser.
"But we stuck to it and I think the interesting thing was that with only a minute to go we passed the ball all the way. We watched it on video and I think we strung twelve passes together before Ryan Green finished the chance. At any level, at any time in a game to string twelve passes together and finish with a goal is terrific play but in the closing stages of the game ,when you are chasing the points, the tempetation is to hump the ball forward. But we got it out from the left-back position, changed it and got it down the right-hand side and inter-changed passes and movement very well. It was a terrific movement at that stage of the game to produce us the winning goal. It speaks volumes for the players patience, realisience and their ability.
"I think we are particually pleased with Ryan Green. I thought he had an outstanding game. He often made use of any space he could go into and for him to carry on a run after being involved in the move and finish up in the inside-left channel and finish with a volley- I thought it was teriffic play.