Turner praises Exeter
Graham Turner, the Hereford United manager, has told the NLP that the howling gale helped Exeter more than Hereford yesterday.
"You don't really want to be playing Exeter in conditions like this because what they do, they do very well.
"We need better conditions than this to pass the ball. We had a go and wern't out-battled today but they got a couple of breaks.
"I can't think for the life of me where the referee got the foul for the free-kick which led to their second goal. He certainly saw something I didn't.
"We also have justifiable grounds for complaint after a couple of the sendings-off that we have had here that their left-back Alex Jeannin stayed on the pitch.
"I thought that his tackle on Ryan Green was a sending-off in itself but then he struck Simon Travis in the face.
"They were lucky to get away with that."
The Exeter mamager, Alex Inglethrope, admitted that it was not a game for the purist.
"It was probably the team which coped best with the conditions which was going to win the match," he said.