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Saturday, August 25, 2018

It Was An Off Day And We Need To Suck It Up Said Beadle



Manager Pete Beadle put the 2-1 defeat against Bradford (Park Avenue) on Saturday down to an 'off day' but he's not going to panic.

He said Hereford need to 'suck it up' and start preparing for the visit of York City next weekend.

"We're not going to panic about it as we're six games into a 42 game season," Beadle told BBC H&W's reporter Keith Hall.

"For the first time is six games we haven't played particularly well so we just work hard again.

"It would be great to have another game on Monday to bounce back and have another go, but we haven't and we've got to wait a full week.

"It's disappointing, but we've had a bad day at the office, things didn't go well for us at either end of the pitch for us today and we've just got to suck it up now.

"We had an off day, it happens."

Last weekend's late defeat at Chorley wasn't as bad performance from the Bulls, but ten out the eleven starters today didn't play well, according to Beadle.

"We couldn't get anything going, any momentum, any fluency. Last week I thought we played ever so well up until the final third, but today it just didn't happen and it's hard to put your finger on it.

"We've had an off day, you can't analyse it, we'll watch them game back but from two to 11 today, because I thought Martin [Horsell, Hereford goalkeeper] was excellent but none of them can come away and say 'I did okay today' because they just weren't at it for whatever reason.

"You ask them and they can't put their finger on it either. Tactically sometimes, and technically, it all goes out the window when things don't go well.

"Sometimes you can get away with one or two not playing particularly well, but today unfortunately we had more than that. 

"We couldn't get going. They're not tired, they're fresh, they looked great on Thursday and they were sharp and bright, but today we couldn't get any sort of momentum going."

New winger Jordan Lam went straight into the side and Beadle thought he did okay, especially in the first half when he was involved in the build up to a number of chances and crosses into the box.

"He did okay, We thew him in because it might give us a bit of a lift and more of a cutting edge in the final third, and in spells, in the first half especially, we had a couple flash across the goal that he engineered.

"We lacked that cutting edge in the final third. We needed more bodies in the box, sometimes like today it's gone behind everybody or in front of everybody. Another day it rolls straight to somebody's foot and they tap it in, but today it wasn't to be."