Senior: Make up for Devon defeat (From Bridport and Lyme Regis News)

Senior: Make up for Devon defeat

9:10am Wednesday 15th February 2012 in The Bees By Adam Summers

BARNSTAPLE TOWN 3 Bridport 0

TREVOR Senior has urged his men to put Saturday’s disappointing defeat to bed and focus their energy on making amends at Brislington this weekend (3pm).

Bridport suffered an off-day as they slumped to a 3-0 loss at fellow strugglers Barnstaple Town in the Toolstation Western Premier Divis-ion.

The Bees were below par for much of the afternoon and were duly punished by the North Devon outfit, who could have made the scoreline look much worse.

Boss Senior said: “We started okay in the first 10 minutes but after that we looked very lethargic.

“Once again the pitch was not conducive to free-flowing football and they adapted to the conditions a lot better than we did.

“They got the ball forward quickly and had two lads up front who were very sharp and caused us a lot of problems.

“Tom Richardson had a couple of chances for us but we ended up going into the break two down and were perhaps a little lucky it wasn’t more.

“In the second half there was a bit of a response but even though we got up the field a little more and enjoyed some decent spells of possession, we still couldn’t create any clear-cut openings.

“They then grabbed another goal on the break with 10 minutes remaining and that was it.

“We just didn’t perform as we know we can do. You can sometimes get away with two or three having an off-day but when there are seven or eight it becomes very difficult.

“All we can do now though is put it to bed and move on.”

The defeat has seen the Bees fall to fourth-bottom in the table but they still remain eight points above the drop-zone.

Senior, whose side travel to Brisling-ton this Saturday in a rearranged fixture, added: “It is good that we have that cushion but we also have quite a tough run-in, so it is important now we try and kick on a little bit.”

Bees: Filkins, Condliffe, C Clarke, J Charles (Hill 30), Senior, Hayter, Legg, Wise, Richardson, Watts (Conning 60), Morgan (McAllister 75).