HEREFORD FC manager Pete Beadle admits his side need to improve drastically, despite winning their opening two games in Southern Football League Division One South & West.

The Bulls beat Mangotsfield 3-2 on Tuesday night, which followed a 2-1 success over AFC Totton.

"We have been poor in two games and have got away with it," he said.

"Certainly in pre-season, I thought we looked sharp and lively and, for whatever reason, in the two league games we haven't been anywhere near ourselves.

"We said at half time 'you've given yourselves the perfect start, you should now go on and totally dominate the game' but we don't and we let them back in to it.

"Then for the first time in the second half, we actually put some passes together and we create another chance and John [Mills] puts it away, and literally two minutes later, a free header at a corner and it drops and they smash it in again.

"We just seemed to huff and puff and never really got going, so I'm a little bit disappointed.

"You can get carried away in that it's the early part of the season, but we're not right at the moment and we might need to change things around a little bit.

"We're delighted to get six points on the board in our first two games, but we know we're nowhere near where we should be in the way we've performed both with the ball and without the ball."

John Mills again started on the bench for Hereford and made a difference when he came on.

"People will say that he should be starting, but then you can pick another different 11 and someone else is playing," added Beadle.

"We're doing what we think is right, it was a good finish and he had another chance at the end when the keeper put it just wide."