Absolute Joy says Sills

Absolute joy was Tim Sills' reaction to scoring his first goal for Hereford United this afternoon.

"I've worked extremely hard pre-season and through the games. I've enjoyed Fleet scoring a lot of goals and I hope he enjoyed watching me score one today because it felt fantastic," Sills told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"I've been delighted for Fleet. Knowing if I'm going to win the flick-ons there's someone there who is capable of putting them away. Hopefully I can share some of the plaudits with him."



Sills and Fleetwood celebrating after Sills' goal - picture by Andy Compton of the Hereford Journal

Sills admitted that in the first half Hereford were poor.

"May be a bit of comedown after Tuesday night. We were fortunate to go in 1-0 up at half-time.

"Second half was a little bit better. When Fleets and I came off and Alan and Willo they ran them ragged as well.

"We've got to learn to start better in games."

Sills thought Hereford were lucky with the penalty.

"It was a weird one. Not many refs would give it. A plain bodycheck, Purds put it away brilliantly." (Later Danny Wilson, the Hartlepool manager, agreed it was a penalty.)

Reminded by Keith Hall that Hartlepool soon got one back much like the Coventry did in the cup game Sills continued:

"We dealt with it well Tuesday night and I thought we dealt with it well today. Perhaps there was a lapse of concentration - we're a young side - those kind of things are going to happen."

Talking about after the substitutions Sills agreed that Connell and Williams had an instant impact.

"Came on, looked very sharp. Willo got his goal, Alan contributed to that and got some really good touches."

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