Reaction From Hereford Manager Graham Turner

Last updated : 25 March 2009 By Thetashkentterror
Graham Turner
Bulls boss Graham Turner spoke to BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester after his side's 2-1 win over Carlisle at Brunton Park last night, Turner saying that the wind was a big factor in the game :

" It gives us a big boost obviously, it is three points towards the safety target. It was always going to be a hard game, the force of the wind, the strength of the wind caused problems for both sides. We took advantage of it to go into a 2-0 lead and I was disappointed to have conceded the goal just before half-time, but we knew that we would be up against it in the second-half.

" We might have rode our luck on one or two occasions but we should have done better when we had the ball on the breaks. You could see that apprehension, lack of confidence amongst the players that nobody wanted to make a mistake. So we probably did give the ball away too many times, perhaps content just to play it forward. We should have kept the ball a lot better but it is a great three points, it gives us a fighting chance, the belief should start to come back in the side and we can move it on from here.

" We obviously had their team, we worked out they would do with Gareth Taylor and we got the forecast right. So you have always got to try to get at people who are not familiar with positions, but it was the wind more than anything else that allowed us to attack with such force. I think that we passed the ball extremely well, two well worked goals, should have had more but it did make a big difference. It was a heck of a wind and we knew that we would be up against it in the second-half.

" He (Matty Done) was going ever so well, his pace was in evidence, he had a hand in things, in almost everything. I think that it was quite a bad tackle on him, the opposition player (Graham Kavanagh) got booked for it but he twisted his knee in the tackle and we hope that it is not too serious. Because I think that on Saturday he did well at Swindon and he has done extremely well in the 45 minutes tonight. "