Manager Kevin Horlock reflects on the defeat to Kidderminster.
DK: A bad day at the office today?
KH: I think it's a bad day at the office in terms of injuries. I think sometimes this season we're going to have to, and I expect to, hold your hands up and say we got beaten by that team and that's what we did. I think obviously they're a good outfit, full-time, and I think it showed. That quality up the pitch causes problems. I think we started quite well the first 15 minutes. We asked questions but then once they showed their quality, we went on the back foot and dropped deep and obviously it played into their hands and it didn't look like we were going to score after that. So I can't ask more from the lads in terms of effort. I think we can improve in moments where we need to make better decisions and obviously the goals aren't great from our point of view but I think today you've got to hold your hands up and say we got beaten by a better team today in Kidderminster. We know what sort of season we're in. It's going to be a tough season for us. We're going to have to work our socks off to get any points.
We're going to win games. We're going to lose a fair few games along the road and we're going to come up against teams that are obviously better than us. That's just the nature of it. Obviously a lot of their players have played higher. We've just gone up a division so I don't think I've got any excuses. No real disappointment in the fact that we got beat today because we are going to lose games of football. Yes, I wish we could have defended a bit better on the goals. I wish we could have made better decisions in the final third which would have maybe resulted in us getting a goal ourselves but today it wasn't to be. We've worked hard but got beaten by a bad team.
DK: Where does this rank today in terms of performances this season?
KH: We started quite well but like I said, sometimes you're going to come up against a team where even if we had played as best as we can today we may not have got nothing. In other games where we play similar today and win games so it's peaks and troughs really. It's important not to get too down.Obviously we want to be winning games and moving up the division and I'm confident that we will do but today wasn't the day where we were going to get three points unfortunately. We weren't as good as we can be and they're a good team. They've not had the best start I suppose that they were hoping for but obviously going out of the cup last week as well it probably wasn't a good time to play them in terms of they're looking for a reaction.I thought they were very good going forward. I thought they caused us problems. The biggest disappointment for me today is obviously Keiran's come off injured and probably going to be missing for a little while. Tommy Smith's come off and going to be missing certainly for Tuesday. It's not ideal but we crack on, we work hard, we keep believing in ourselves and try and get as many points on the board as possible.
DK: A quick turnaround so hopefully a chance to quickly respond from today's defeat and the added insult to injury is those two being out.
KH: Yeah, they're killer blows. We've spoken so many times about Keiran, he's massive for us and Tommy's come in and been a revelation at left-back. Without them it's difficult but it's options or opportunities for others. The game's come thick and fast and you look at it, it won't be easy. Brackley obviously on Tuesday so we'll have to be ready, we'll have to be fully fit and raring to go. If we play as well as we can we've got a chance of winning. If we don't, there's a good chance we'll lose. I think coming into the season after the euphoria of last season, everyone's excited to go up a level of course but what comes with that is playing in teams and clubs that are a lot bigger than us, that have a lot more pull and have quality squads. We all would love to have a season like we had last season but from success comes tough times where you've got to evolve and develop and hang in there. So we'll do that, we'll do that and I'm sure we'll pick up enough points to stay in this division and we try and grow. I'm not too disappointed, obviously I don't like losing games, I never will but we got beaten by a better team so I can go home knowing that we give everything, I think the lads worked their socks off but today it wasn't good enough.
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