A Frosty Port Vale Pitch
Following after a 2-0 defeat at Port Vale on this very day in 2010, Hereford United manager John Trewick spoke to BBC Hereford and Worcester.
Despite Port Vale
going down to ten men in the first half, Hereford United failed to score
this afternoon and conceded two 'easy' goals.
"I'm very disappointed with the result," Trewick told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"We
conceded what for me was a very straight-forward type of goal which we
should have been defended better after ten minutes and that gave the
opposition a lift.
"It's a common symptom of matches recently
where we've lost narrowly and the goal the oppostion have got, they
haven't had to work too hard for.
"We had a few chances - when your chances come you've got to take them."
Vale's second goal came after Constantine lost possession in the Vale half with nearly all the Bulls player well forward.
"Later
on in the game you have always got to be careful when you commit people
forward - when you start chashing things you are always vunerable.
"But 2-0 or 1-0 it doesn't make any difference as you lose the game."
Ryan Valentine's sending-off:
"I think it's difficult for referees to pick out one individual unless he said something which I not aware of.
"I thought the tackle was a decent tackle. I thought he won the ball. I need to look at that."
New loan player Lateef Elford-Alliyu made his debut for the Bulls:
"He
did some decent things. It was hard for the lad because we never
established a position in the game where we could really go on and be
comfortable.
"He did okay, he's only young, he's got talent and he played his part."
And new players:
"I'm hopeful I'll bring in someone before the deadline on Monday."
Meanwhile two respected
members of Hereford United press core have suggested that John Trewick's
time as manager of the Bulls may be numbered.
In his match report for the Hereford Times, sports Editor Richard Prime intimated that the pressure on Trewick was increasing.
DESPITE playing against 10 men for more than half the match, Hereford slipped to a fourth successive away defeat.
And this latest reverse, the Bulls’ sixth in seven outings, piles pressure on manager John Trewick.
Hereford
are quickly being dragged further into the relegation battle and the
way they were out fought by the Valiants, who played for 50 minutes with
10 men, suggests that not enough of the side have the stomach for the
battle ahead.
And when Ryan Valentine saw red for the second
time this season, in injury time, it just turned a bad afternoon into a
terrible one.
Meanwhile Keith Hall, who is BBC Hereford and Worcester's match day reporter, also commented.
"It
sounds like he (Trewick) is getting extremely frustrated as well with
it. Can't really bring the players in that he would want.
"I'm sure pressure is mounting. It's six defeats in the last seven for Hereford. It's not the run that they want.
"They are sliding towards the wrong end and that big R word is looming.
"Things have to change, they have to change quickly.
"Big, big game on Tuesday. If they don't win that I'm not sure what is going to happen."