York City boss Billy McEwan blasted top scorer Andy Bishop for an "abysmal" performance during Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Woking.

McEwan was critical of all of his strikers after the match - except Clayton Donaldson - but singled out the display of 14-goal leading marksman Bishop for particular attention.

A Chris Porter goal kick proved the Minstermen's only on-target effort during a disappointing display at the Kingfield Stadium and, talking about Bishop's contribution afterwards, McEwan said: "We need more from our so-called international players because that's not good enough for York City. He got it with both barrels at half time and full time because I thought his performance was abysmal."

The Minstermen played most of the second half with four strikers after the early introduction of loan signing Tcham N'Toya but, commenting on the overall standard of forward play from his team, McEwan added: "I thought our forwards were awful except for Clayton Donaldson. He was the only one to come out with any credit and I am looking for new ones.

"I can't put up with this. We were disappointing against Southport and at Woking we never caused enough problems in the final third of the pitch.

"They have to look at themselves in the mirror and ask what's going on. Donaldson looked lively but Bishop and Joe O'Neill were poor.

"It was hopeless by their standards and I know they can play better. They were up against two experienced centre-backs who had them in their pockets all game."

City conceded both Woking goals from long throw-ins and McEwan also admitted that his team's defending was not up to scratch, saying: "We gave them an ideal start by giving them two goals. You can't do that and it was poor defending.

"The first goal was down to basic marking and wasn't good enough and, for the second goal, the ball was in the air for a long time but, if you don't cause problems at the other end, you will be under the cosh."

City conceded the first goal during a seven-minute period in which the visitors were under-manned as captain Mark Hotte received stitches for a head wound.

Conference top scorer Justin Richards netted on 25 minutes but, about Hotte's enforced absence, McEwan said: "I didn't make a substitution because I might have needed one later. You can't use them at the drop of a hat."

McEwan also apologised to the 236 City supporters who made the 500-mile round trip to Surrey.

He said: "We had a good following of fans and let them down in the first half. We did better in the second half but we were chasing the game after giving them another goal.

"A lot of fans came and paid good money to see the team play and the performance was unacceptable. I have told them it was not good enough."

Updated: 10:13 Monday, January 30, 2006