Andy Todd: AFC Telford self-destructed
Player-coach Andy Todd admitted AFC Telford United pressed the self-destruct button after they slumped to a damaging defeat at home to Welling tonight.
The Bucks, currently bottom of the Conference Premier, had gone into the game needing a big win to help revive their flagging survival hopes.
But the hosts shipped two second-half goals from Tyrone Marsh and Aristide Bassele,either side of a scrappy Andy Parry strike on their way to a 2-1 defeat.
And Todd said: "It was one of those games that we had to take by the scruff of the neck and get the points on the board.
"I actually thought that, even though we were playing poorly and we conceded again within the first five minutes of the second-half, we got ourselves back into the game with a scrappy goal.
"Then, a few minutes after we get into the game, we press the self-destruct button.
"If we could have managed to see things through for the 10 minutes after we had equalised then at worst we were going to get a point. But we just shot ourselves in the foot."
Telford were also handed two injury blows as Rod McDonald had to withdrawn before kick off after picking up a knock, before skipper Steve Akrigg had to be substituted half an hour in for the same reason.
Todd added that the game had been particularly tough, coming just two days after their gruelling FA Cup tie at Bristol City.
He said: "We have had a bit of bad luck with losing Steve Akrigg early and we had to re-shuffle the pack.
"Five or six players including Mike Grogan, Godfrey Poku, Andy Parry, Adam Farrell and Ryan Higgins played 90 and put a shift in on Sunday and you could see they were tired."
