WORCESTER City manager Richard Dryden believes a point was the least his side deserved from the amazing 3-3 draw with Tamworth.
Despite being 3-0 down with 81 minutes on the clock, two late strikes from Ryan Clarke and an injury-time equaliser from Troy Wood earned Worcester a share of the spoils.
Gary Mills' side had earlier scored twice in a minute before adding a second-half penalty through Colin Marrison.
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Dryden said: "To be honest, when the penalty went in I thought is it damage limitation or are we going to have another go? A few things were said at half-time and I can't remember any more chances they had in the second-half.
"I can't remember too many apart from the goals.
"I just can't believe we were 3-0 down with however many minutes left and with another five minutes I think we could have nicked it if I'm being a little bit optimistic. When you are 3-0 down, you take what you can and the players rolled their sleeves up.
"There was no booing from the fans or anything, they got behind them and if you've spent your money on a ticket today you're going to be well happy.
"We've dominated the game and I think we've got what we deserved at the minimum."
He added: "The heart rate was going but we got one and you could see they were getting deeper and deeper and the only disappointing thing is the three goals have come from long balls in and set plays, not great football. The conditions dictated it a little bit but you'll take anything you can and it's money well spent if you've come to watch.
"I hope so but don't get me wrong, I would rather win 3-0 than draw 3-3 each or even win 4-3, keep a clean sheet and make it nice and hard for teams and go and score goals at the other end. But you can't deny it was exciting again."
Dryden was as stunned as everyone by the scenes at a soaking St George's Lane but could understand why some fans had left before Clarke and Wood stole the show.
"I'm not surprised," he said. "If your team's 3-0 down and you love your club you don't want to see your team get beaten 3-0 but people have got to learn their lessons, we have been down 2-0 enough."
However, the City manager was highly critical of the defending that saw his team fall behind in the first place.
The Worcester manager said: "It was disappointing because I've asked the players to have a go. When you're asking people just to head the ball or attempt to head the ball there were people ducking out and not having a go. It's not a header around people's feet it's just a header to clear it or challenge and I was really disappointed with the first 10 minutes and a few things were said.
"After 80 minutes Jamie Price headed everything, he looked like a young Stuart Pearce out there at one stage.
"The other disappointing thing was the penalty. It was very harsh in wet conditions."
Posted by: stargazer, worcester on 7:31am Mon 17 Mar 08
A good game in the end but our defence is still weak, there are 6 clubs with a worse defensive record than us (the bottom 6 )if only we could have conceded 5 or 6 goals less we would have been in the playoffs,to many drawn games where we should have won, we seem to be chasing to many games, if you don't concede then you cant't lose.But well done to the lads for showing guts and spirit in a lot of games this season. Keep up the good work.
A good game in the end but our defence is still weak, there are 6 clubs with a worse defensive record than us (the bottom 6 )if only we could have conceded 5 or 6 goals less we would have been in the playoffs,to many drawn games where we should have won, we seem to be chasing to many games, if you don't concede then you cant't lose.But well done to the lads for showing guts and spirit in a lot of games this season. Keep up the good work.
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