Disappointing second half says Turner

In an interview with BBC Hereford and Worcester after this evening's Trophy game, Graham Turner admitted it was hard to understand how the Bulls had played well in the first half and disappointingly in the second period.

"I thought we played very well in the first half and could have been two or three ahead by half time.

"The goal on half time was right out of the blue. We never looked in any danger at any time during the first half.

"We never looked the same side second half. We never got our passing going. We just launched it forward.

"Difficult to understand how we can go so poor in the second half compared with how good we were in the first half."

Turner didn't seem too happy with the performance of the referee, Steve Bratt.

"There were some strange decisions. There were one or two tackles that went in that, for me, were never free kicks but the referee persisted in giving them.

"Their equaliser was a case in point. I thought there was a good tackle, never a foul, by Karl Broadhurst but it was a free kick that led to the goal.

"But we can't use the goal as an excuse."

Looking forward to the Oldham game, Turner suggested that several players had a chance tonight to stake a claim for a place in the team.

"One or two that were playing tonight won't be playing at Oldham."

Meanwhile the Swindon manager, Maurice Malpas, was pleased.

"It was important that we got through and although I didn't think we dominated the game, we did enough to get through," said Malpas.

"The goal we got back came at a perfect time and that gave the boys the lift they needed going into the second half.

"Coxy scored out of nothing and I couldn't quite see how he could have got it in, but that's what he does."

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