Q: What is your initial thoughts following today’s defeat?
Hinshelwood: “I take full responsibility for the outcome of today’s tie. It’s all good taking the praise when things are going well, but it’s important to own up when at fault. I decided to change the formation and shape and unfortunately it didn’t have the desired effect. I am so disappointed we weren’t able to reward another fantastic travelling support, who were in fine voice throughout the entirety of the match. For some reason, I seem to have a curse in this competition and it’s another campaign where we haven’t been able to put together a meaningful run and earn a massive achievement for the Football Club.
Our first 20 minutes started pretty well, but after that we didn’t manage to control the contest. Full credit to Wealdstone and Gary for the victory and we wish them well in the competition.”
Q: We conceded all three goals within a 10-minute spell in the second half, can you put your finger on why that was?
A: “I think it was clear to see to anyone who was at the match today. Mistakes. Not judging the flight of the ball and playing to the whistle or dealing with the conditions. They’re not excuses but just the way it was today. It’s disappointing that we were lacking our usual grit and determination to win our individual duels and reclaim the ball quickly once losing it. We weren’t able to react well to falling behind and ultimately that’s ended with us exiting the competition. We don’t want to make excuses – today just wasn’t good enough.”
Q: And with the scoreline at 3-0 with 25 minutes left to play was it always going to be an uphill battle from there?
A: “Quite literally an uphill battle with us playing against the slope. It’s notoriously a tough place to go and we didn’t deal with the pitch or conditions anywhere near well enough. We weren’t at our usual best going forward today and it’s something we will look at and address heading into next week’s match.”
Q: Finally, do you have closing message to supporters?
A: “Just a massive apology for the result and performance and a thank you to them for travelling in numbers once again and willing us on the whole game. That was a proper National League away following today and it’s so frustrating that we couldn’t reward our supporters. We will return home, lick our wounds and make sure a performance like this doesn’t happen again. It isn’t through a lack of trying, we all desperately wanted a proper run in this competition but for various reasons it wasn’t to be and we just want supporters to know how grateful we are for their passion and commitment.”
Originally published by Worthing FC ↗