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Saturday, January 19, 2019

We Felt We Were Fine Said Beadle

 

Former Hereford FC manager Peter Beadle has spoken to the Non-League programme about trying to get another job since leaving Edgar Street and also about his view that when he was sacked the team was playing quite well. We felt we were fine he said.

"You go to as many games as you can and fit in as many games as possible," said Beadle.

"You check out certain players and you look at the prospects of where you could possibly be going next and what project could be up-coming.

"You keep an ear out for anything that is going on in and around the football world."

Have there been offers made to you?

"No.

"I've applied for a few things and they haven't quite worked out. The good thing for me is that I've managed to get two interviews which have been very very good. Every interview you do is a step forward. There are a huge amount of applicants for every role.

"I've had two interviews and I've been very pleased apart from the final outcome.

"It is a big decision for any club to take on a manager.

"Recently I had a club ring me up asking me about my situation, said they would come back to me with some dates to go and meet them and then rang me on the Monday and said they didn't want to speak to me anymore!

"It's tough for any chairman, board of directors picking any new manager. You've got to try and get the right one in everybody's opinion but most importantly one that's going to move your club forward.

"I haven't been the chosen one for any of them so far but I'm hopeful.

"I would like a project where people want to move their football club forward because I think we've shown we have the skills and knowledge to do that with clubs.

"We spoke to a club the other day who had just appointed a new manager, there was no interview process. My assistant spoke to the director of football there and he said there is a huge amount of ethos around Hereford, big club, lots of money, they should have won the league.

"But it doesn't matter who you are, and the chap said the same thing, just to win the league is an achievement on its own. You've still got to go out there and play week in, week out and beat the opposition week in, week out.

"And we did that well so I know that what I'm doing is right, I know that what I've done is right.

"We would love to have a project where a club is ambitious to move forward and that could be in so many different aspects, not just on the field but off the field. To bring forward and upgrade the acadamy and one that instead of being in the bottom half of the table actually start pushing towards the play-offs.

"A project isn't always about a club that has loads of money.

"Anybody that rings, anybody I speak to, I would never say no to anybody as you just don't know what's on offer, what's on the table.

"I don't think that phone will ring too often because people might think he's going to want too much money, he's going to want this, he's going to want that.

"It's not the case, it's about having that project that you can get your teeth into."

Do you feel if you had remained at Hereford they would have been in a better position than there are now? They are one point above FC United, in a relegation battle.

"Every division we went through we were learning new things about that division.

"Yes myself and Steve have got great experience, good experience of all different levels of football from acadamy football to youth football to first team football to national league with Hereford United.

"We both played the game at pro-level so we've both been around the block and we know the score.

"We have faith in ourselves, every season we won promotion we went - even in the first season we lost three of our first five games then went on a run of 28 wins on the bounce.

"We changed it and brought in a couple of different personnel and went down a different route of personnel but the same idea of how we wanted to play. And it worked.

"Every year we progressed with that.

"This year we didn't feel we were a million miles away. At the time when we lost our jobs we had had a tough run of games. Chorley away, Bradford at home, York at home and Brackley away. Four tough teams.

"And they were all close. We lost in the 92 minute at Chorley 1-0 and we had played ever so well. We didn't play too well against Bradford but it was quite a close game and we lost 2-1. We then drew with York and I felt on the day we were better than them and we should have beat them. And then we went to Brackley, first goal for me should never have been a goal, then we had a player sent off just before half-time But up until then we were well in the game and it was very fine margins.

"We sat down after that game and we sat down in the week and we spoke about what we probably needed to do, may be change one or two things.

"But we felt that we were fine. We were healthily placed, we were three points outside the play-offs with a game in hand.

"We were going to change it round, look to bring in a few different players and try and change things a little bit and we felt then we could carry on and got back on a winning run and put a few more points on the board.

"But it didn't happen.

"Who knows where we would have been had we stayed, you can't answer that.

"I'd like to think we would have been there or there abouts, that was always the aim for this year, to consolidate.

"It's a hugely competitive league this season, they are some fantastic teams in it, some big clubs in there and also a lot of money.

"So we were looking to steady ourselves a little bit, find out where we were in the  whole scheme of things and maybe look to kick on as the season progressed and look to have a charge next season. 

"But it wasn't to be. Who knows what might have been.

"It's disappointing to see three years of work, not thrown down the pan, but they are finding it a little bit tougher at the moment.

"Who knows whether they will get out of it or not."