Game over after four minutes admits Turner

The Hereford United manager, interviwed after this afternoon's game at Bristol Rovers was frank with his assessment of the proceedings.

"The game was effectively over after four minutes," Graham Turner told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"We got caught cold. We made some basic defending errors.

"I've got to say you look at the game as a whole and three of their strikes went in from twenty yards plus. It's not very pleasant when that happens. It was one of those days when they are flying in from all over the place.

"It's an unforgiving League. Once you go higher you get punished for any mistakes and you get punished for being out of position even only by a yard or two. That was the case today.

"It's no good slaughtering the players - there was a lot of honest endeavour - but we had great difficulty contending with their front players. We couldn't control them.

"Giving two free kicks away was just part of the poor defending. That's the penalty you play for that lack of discipline at times.

"There are one or two, or more than one or two, players in there at the moment who are not performing as well as they did last season."

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