NEXT HOME GAME - TBC
NEXT AWAY GAME - SUPPORTERS XI ARE PLAYING WORCESTER AT MALVERN ON SUNDAY AUGUST 3rd AT 3.00pm

Sunday, May 22, 2011

It will hurt for sometime says Turner

Graham Turner's failure to take Shrewsbury to League One in his first season back at the Shropshire club has hurt him.

However play-offs are difficult and Turner will remember it took three attempts when he was with Hereford United to get to a Conference play-off final.

"It will hurt over the weekend and it will hurt for some time," said Turner after Friday's second leg against Torquay.

"It just seems a whole season has gone to waste in two 90 minutes. It was probably a travesty we didn’t go up automatically

"But I’ve been in the game long enough to know nobody feels sorry for you."

Turner first took the Bulls to the play-offs in 2004. However Aldershot went through possibly because Hereford were down to ten men early in the second-leg when Andy Tretton was sent off for a professional foul.

A season later and Hereford couldn't cope with a very physical Stevenage in the play-offs.

However it was third time lucky for Turner at Hereford when in Spring 2006, the Bulls went through the play-offs, and then defeated Halifax at the Walkers Stadium.