Thursday, September 11, 2003

Seadogs next for league leaders

Scarborough are the visitors to Edgar Street for Hereford United's next Nationwide Conference match on Saturday, kick off 3pm.

Scarborough beat United twice last season, but currently lie fourteenth having won two of their seven matches so far. They have yet to win a match away from home, drawing one of their three games on their travels.

United boss Graham Turner said of the game: "The gate could be anything between three and five thousand on Saturday, it's hard to forecast.

"Scarborough have not had the best of starts but they have had a few injuries and have changed a number of faces, like we did fourteen or so months ago," he added in the Hereford Times.

United hope to have Daniel Carey-Bertram available after a hamstring injury after he missed recent matches.

Scarborough miss midfielder David Pounder once again, as he suffers with a knee injury, and first-choice goalkeeper Adam Sollitt has a broken finger.

However, manager Russell Slade is up-beat going into the match after Boro' beat Gravesend & Northfleet 2-0 last Saturday, saying: "I'm just hoping that gives us a bit of a spark going to Hereford. That will be a very difficult game with the way they have been scoring goals.

Any United fans who happen to be in North Yorkshire on Saturday can hear BBC Radio York's live commentary of the game on 666 or 1260 khz AM.