Torquay had Xmas Day Off

Different views of how to plan for the Boxing Day match at Torquay have emerged.

For Hereford manager John Trewick decided to bring the players in for training on Christmas Day and make the journey to Torquay late in the afternoon. (see his quotes from his post match interview with Terry Goodwin on BBC H&W)

For Torquay, Paul Buckle allowed his players the day off.

"The players had Christmas Day off from training, this is my third Christmas as a manager and the last two have been a defeat and a win and I didn't think we played well in both so we changed things and gave them that particular day off," said Buckle in his post match interview reported on the Torquay OS.

"I thought about it very hard and ultimately Christmas Day is a special day, it means a lot to many people including myself and the players are only human, they want to be with their family and I was confident that we had done enough during the past couple of days to give them the time off, leave them alone and hope that they would then be desperate to come in today and want to play."

Had the fixture been played at Edgar Street would the two managers have taken the same approach?

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