More from the Fans Forum

Gary Peters poured praise on his strikers at the fans forum last night.

"Up front I think we give people a run for their money at the moment," said the Hereford United director of football.

"Yoann is difficult to play against. Del wins every header but they've got to start doing that in the box. We've got to start scoring.

"Del wins every header at the back. He wins every header on the half-way line but I need him to start winning things in their box.

"He's seen the light, he's a very influential player. He must win near enough every header from corners against and we've put him in there to do that after the debarcle against Rotherham where we had three goals against us, two from corners and one from a free-kick.

"Del has a role where he gets just in the six yard box where we think the majority will come in. He just attacks the ball, he doesn't have to mark anyone.

"He's gone from not even playing to being the captain so that's proof it's not about personalities, it's about people prepared to work hard."

Peters was asked about Kenny Lunt who hasn't featured for sometime.

"I don't like knocking any player, even players who are not in the side. Kenny is not as physical. If we have a two man mid-field with Kenny as one of them it would be very hard for us to win a physical battle.

"If we put Kenny and Harry there, Harry is still very weak. He's 6ft 4in and he's going to be a good player one day."

Another question was about James McQuilken who also hasn't featured, bar one game, recently.

"Jimmy has been battling against Harry Pell and maybe Tom Barkhuizen.

"If we put Jimmy and Kenny in there together, I think we would get out-muscled, and I don't think it would work.

"If we put Jimmy instead of Tom Barkhuizen, people would say that's crazy. He's a lovely lad, he's trains hard, he works hard but I can't see him getting in the team.

"We've said to Jimmy you need to be playing some games. If you're not getting involved what do you want to do. We've got him for next year as well. We feel he needs to play some games so he might go out on loan to do so.

"We're not passing the ball so that takes Jimmy out of the game a lot."

Peters continued to press home his view that the mid-field needs to be physical.

"I think Joe Colbeck coming back makes us a little bit more physical than Steve Leslie was."

Next was a question about the experience of manager Jamie Pitman.

"At the moment he is your manager. I came here and Jamie was your manager and Jamie was your manager last year.

"I can here to help Jamie. After ten games this season I got a phone call to say would I consider coming down to help the manager out.

"The chairman didn't feel it would be good for the football club to sack the first manager after ten games, give another manager a two year contract and then sack him after ten games.

"We've done a lot of work and when I came here I though we were the worst team in the division. I don't think we are anywhere near the worst team now.

"I don't think it is the right time to change the manager. I think we are on the right track."

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