"We didn't deserve that."

"I'm gutted for everybody because I thought everything we were looking for was there. We had tempo in the game, we had good movement up front, we retained possession well, the two midfielders won their battles, defenders defended very well, Jim's had nothing to do and then Robinson smacks one in the top corner from a bit of a tight angle and we've got nothing - that's football."

"The boys deserved their winning bonus, but you don't always get what you deserve in football."

"Fair play to Hereford, they've stuck in but we created a lot of chances and we should have killed the game off but we've not done that.  The pleasing thing for me is that we've shown that the performances are there, the standards are there, we got the reaction from the Wrexham game and we will use a lot of positives out of that game."

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"It's a common chain of thought to change it if you need a goal, but I thought the front three were excellent and all three of them looked like they had a goal in them, they were working there socks off and they never looked like they were tiring so I couldn't justify changing it."

"Basically we have to be disappointed that we haven't scored.  The forwards have done the other part of their jobs which was excellent in their work rate, but they will be disappointed that they haven't scored."

"Hereford had one shot on goal in the first half and I suppose the first five minutes were a little bit nervy, but we saw that through and we stuck in.  It's like when you've been on the wrong end of a poor performance.  You react to things straight away and then wish you hadn't have reacted to them.It's the same today, but they lads know that they have put in one unbelievable shift in."

"I've said to the lads that we may not be pretending to be the greatest manager in the world or the greatest coach in the world, but you know what makes the winning formula or the competitive formula and that is retaining possession in the last third from the centre forwards, the two midfielders winning their battles, the wing backs getting forward and the three defenders playing against the two strikers."

"Ben Futcher, Stevie Haslam and Paul Morgan were excellent today because Guinan and Robinson are a handful.  Andy Parrish was excellent against a rapid type of player and Colin Woodthorpe put in a very mature performance."

"That's my first impression and I don't think that will change much, we will keep on looking at it and we will keep on building on it."

"I have to be careful on how I choose my words, but I thought the referee didn't have a great game.  Glynn Hurst was clean through one v one.  The defender has admitted that he didn't get anything on the ball and all around I thought there were some strange decisions and it was difficult to get a momentum going because we kept on being behind the wrong end of strange decisions."

"You don't mind one or two wrong decisions, you accept that, but it was constant in the second half, we didn't get much to be fair.  There's not much you can do about that, but that may be the changing point in the game.  It was a foul, inside or outside the box doesn't matter, he was their last man and it would have been a red card.  We don't want to see players sent off, but those are the rules. The lad brought Glynn down whose clean through and we all know what Hursty is like from 12 yards - he's lethal."