Dinsley Sees Red - Apology Not Good Enough Said Beadle

Two sendings off in Hereford's 2-0 defeat at last season's FA Trophy winners Brackley Town will see them without two midfielders for three games.

Manager Pete Beadle says that incidents change games, and not only did his side get two men sent off, but Brackley's opening goal proved controversial.

Lee Ndlovu seemingly elbowed Ryan Green in the side of the head in the build up to the goal, before he crossed to James Armson to fire home. Green was left in need of treatment but the officials didn't see the incident.

"Incidents change games," Beadle told BBC Hereford and Worcester's Keith Hall.

"Up until the first incident, the goal, I thought we were well in the game. We're away, we're against a team that won the trophy last year and got to the play-off final. They're no mugs.

"They're just hitting a decent run of form at the moment, so it was never going to be a turn up and roll them over, they weren't going to roll over and die.

"Incidents change games, and like that first one with Ryan [Green], the lad threw a blatant elbow. I've just seen it on the video, but the linesman who was two-yards away said he didn't see it. And the referee also said that he didn't see it either.

"After that people fall asleep, Billy [Murphy] loses his runner and the lad runs through and gets a clear shot on goal. But it's a foul, at the end of the day it's a foul."

Despite going a goal down, Beadle didn't feel it was all over but admitted his side weren't fluent and looked disjointed.

Eliot Richards then got sent off before half time for allegedly stamping on Gareth Dean seemingly in reaction to a foul Harry White.

"We didn't look as fluent, a little bit disjointed at times and then you have the second incident where Eliot gets sent off," Beadle added.

"Again, the referee feels that the six's was more of an act of aggression rather than violent conduct, that's why he only got a yellow and says Eliot stamped on the six.

"Eliot says he was falling over and didn't deliberately stamp on him, so we'll need to have another look at the video to see properly. Unfortunately the one here isn't good enough to see it.

"That could also change the game when we went down to ten men."

A second red was to follow for the Bulls as substitute Calvin Dinsley was shown a straight red card for head-butting Ellis Myles right in front of referee Lewis Smith.

Beadle said Dinsley's apologies wasn't good enough and he can't defend the midfielder.

"And then right in the 90th minute, Dins. You can't condone it, you can't stick up for him because it's a foolish thing to do. Now we're going to be without him for three games, and probably Eliot for three games as well.

"So we're going to miss two key players for three games.

"I've just asked him 'what were you thinking?' but unfortunately it's the red mist and then it's difficult for him to give you an answer then.

"He's apologised, but an apology isn't acceptable because it's going to be a difficult couple of weeks when we lose him and Eliot. There isn't much we can do about it now, we've got to go back and be brave, we've got to stick together and work harder."

At the start of the second half Hereford had a great opportunity to get back into the game, but it was starting to look like it wasn't to be their afternoon.

A promising delivery from Billy Murphy from the right flashed across the face of goal but captain Jordan Cullinane-Liburd couldn't connect with it.

"We come out second half, started brightly second half and we could've been 1-1. It was a great ball in from Billy Murphy, Jordan Liburd was in the middle of the goal, free header and misses the ball completely.

"Then unfortunately within two minutes of that, they're two-nil up. Then obviously it's always going to be hard work, from when you're two-nil down away from home and you're down ten men. At one-nil you can give yourself a chance, but two-nil is always going to be tougher."

With just the one goal in it at half time, the Bulls boss felt Hereford were well within their right to get something out of the game, but ultimately the team didn't look like they'd played together before.

"Today we looked like a team that had just turned up and played for the first time together. I don't understand why, when we trained on Thursday they looked so bright and sharp, we came in today and said can we carry that into today.

"Whether it was the first incident with the goal and it knocked us off our duck a little bit. Then with the sending off, people start going the other way when it's more of a hanging on job.

"We were well within our rights to go and try to get something out the game, but when the second goal goes in it kills it a little bit for us. Then it's a case of trying to tentatively poke and prod to get back in the game, knowing that we can't give too much away down the other end because a third goal puts us even more out the game.

"We played a good side who controlled the game after they went two-nil up, controlled it with ten men and gave us a little bit of our own medicine."