HEREFORD manager Peter Beadle insists the row that saw him accused of tapping up Alvechurch's Ashley Carter has been resolved.

Church boss Ian Long this week claimed Beadle had tried to approach centre-half Carter, a contract player at Lye Meadow, behind his back.

It was alleged Carter had received a call from Beadle while watching Aston Villa take on Birmingham City in the company of Alvechurch chairman Richard Thorndike.

Beadle defended himself by claiming he had misdialled and "would have been wasting my time" pursuing a player he said Alvechurch had valued at £20,000 in the past.

"Ash passed the phone over to Richard, at which point Hereford rang off," said Long. "Then Ash admitted there had been previous conversations between them.

"I want to state here and now that Ash is under contract and all this is doing is having an unsettling effect. It's both illegal and disrespectful to Alvechurch.

"As you can tell, I'm extremely unhappy about it because I believed we had a good relationship with Hereford.

"Just because Hereford are a big club, it doesn't mean they can do what they like and I will be speaking with our chairman over the situation.

"I've since been in touch with Hereford manager Peter Beadle and hope that will be the end of the matter."

In response, Beadle said: "Ashley was at Kidderminster and went to Alvechurch at the start of the season..

"I spoke to Ian because I have a good relationship with him but he said he was under contract and they wanted £20,000. That was obviously not going to happen, so that was the end of the conversation.

"Since then, I have brought in Jordan Cullinane-Liburd and Dara O'Shea until the end of the season, so I don't need another central defender.

"Ashley was under contract and I couldn't get him out of it, so I would have been wasting my time.

"We've have Dunstable on Saturday and they've had Merthyr on Tuesday night.

"We couldn't get hold of Gav (Williams) or Dean (Clarke) so I tried their first-team coach (Ashley Williams) to see if we could pick up two tickets for the match.

"I realised I had rung the wrong number so put down the phone. Ian rung me straight away, I explained it to him and that was the end of it."