Defensive woe worries Turner
24 Aug 2008 - 12:27:02
Hereford United manager Graham Turner has warned his side to become stronger in defence if they are to avoid a quickfire return to League Two this season.
The Bulls have lost all three of their league games at a higher level this season, being thrashed 6-1 at Bristol Rovers this weekend.
Afterwards, a downbeat Turner told BBC Hereford & Worcester: "The game was effectively over after four minutes. We got caught cold and we made some basic defending errors.
"It's an unforgiving league. Once you go higher you get punished for any mistakes and you get punished for being out of position even only by a yard or two.
"It's no good slaughtering the players, there was a lot of honest endeavour out there, but we had great difficulty contending with their front players.
"There are one or two, or more than one or two players in there at the moment who are not performing as well as they did last season."