Hereford FC manager Peter Beadle spoke to BBC Hereford and Worcester after this afternoon's 3-2 victory at Dunkirk.
"It's been the first time this year we've had so many players not at it today who haven't dropped their standards, they just didn't play well, just didn't click.
"Give Dunkirk credit for that because they came to the game Thursday being just down the road and they put a game plan together and they tried to stifle us and for long periods maybe it did just that.
"But I know certainly from our players performance levels, they were not anywhere near where they have been.
"We were always in the game at 2-1 and 2-2 then obviously they had the goal disallowed and by all accounts rightly so, he was quite a way offside when it hit him before it went in.
"But what our players did show today that they'll never give up, and they showed they've got huge amounts of character and they kept going and kept going and eventually got the goal that won us the points."
Beadle was asked by Terry Goodwin what he put the drop in individual performance levels down to.
"Because it was so many I don't know, sometimes you can put it down to one or two but it was so many today.
"Not that I'm going to knock them for that because they've been fantastic all season but to have so many all at once is very rare.
"But we've got through today on character and drive and desire to keep going, another day, another team maybe their heads would have gone far before that because we've had an abundance of chances and half chances and not put them away. And players could have quite easily gone while it's not our day and thrown the towel in.
"But ours didn't, they rolled their sleeves up, they kept going even when things weren't going well, we weren't playing particularily well but they kept going and got the all important goal right at the very end.
"Every point is vital at the moment, maybe supporters and other teams and clubs and maybe the players, although I don't think so, looked at it today and just thought that's three points for Hereford.
"But we don't ever take anybody lightly, I certainly don't and I knew it would be a tough game today and that's the one thing I remind the players constantly is that we don't get any free rides here, no dead rubbers where the team just turns up for the sake of it.
Everyone wants to beat us and I thought they were very good today and on another day they would have held on for the result. Maybe we did just enough overall to win the game. We certainly had far more chances and things like that but we weren't right but we managed to get away with it."