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The New Campaign starts on Saturday
After the disappointment of failing to attain promotion last season, Hereford United will be looking to go just that little bit better this time. Most supporters will have been counting down the days to the start of the season since last May and, with all the good news coming out of Edgar Street recently, are feeling pretty optimistic. And with season ticket sales the best for years, many supporters have already backed the team with their committment.
As regards this Saturday's game, Graham Turner knows that Hereford will start favourites to win against Farnborough. However the team that will start the season will probably be missing a couple of players so may be it is fate that has brought Farnborough to Edgar Street. Yet it was a few of the less fancied teams that proved most troublesome at home last season.
"It's one of those games that you would expect to take the three points from on the basis of last years form but we can take nothing for granted," admitted Turner.
Jim White in the Daily Telegraph recently captured the feelings of supporters on the first day of the season.
"For supporters the first game of the Conference season always brings a whiff of optimism, the collective triumph of hope over experience. Saturday morning is the morning that dawns the brightest.This is the one moment in the season when they can look in the paper and see that every other team in the division is still within touching distance.
"Fans will don their new team shirts, buy their lucky burger from the stall along the way and once inside the ground catch up with fellow addicts, whom they have not seen for three months.Everyone will be smiling and full of good cheer.
"If anything, the collective optimism will only increase as the team trots out on the pitch, limbs tanned, the new signings up front eager to make an impression, even the pie-maker at the back looking as though he might have shed a few pounds in pre-season training. And then the whistle will blow.
"Enjoy the moment."