The most surprising Hereford United news of the day is the decision to bring in another goalkeeper to Edgar Street.
Whilst Matt Murray from Wolves will be very welcome, his arrival could mean that current first team on-loan keeper Darren Randolph is suffering from some sort of injury, Turner doesn't think he is quite good enough, he could be wanted back at Charlton or perhaps they have received an offer for him.
Randolph was reported to have a slight shoulder injury earlier this week but has been passed fit to play in tomorrow's cup game with Dagenham.
However that is not the first injury problem he has had recently. Fluid was removed from his knee earlier last month causing him to miss the Swindon Trophy game.
Yet Randolph has given several excellent performances in goal for the Bulls particularily at Leeds on September 27th.
"Darren Randolph kept us in the game, made some outstanding saves, had a great afternoon," said Turner.
The Leeds manager also had words of praise for Randolph.
"I had a little feeling that the keeper might do well, and he proved me right,' said Gary McAllister.
"Steve Staunton took him into the Under 21's and had him part of the B International for the Republic (of Ireland), and said just keep an eye on the keeper, he's one that he rates. And when that gets said, I don't know it's sods law isn't it...he didn't disappoint, he's one that really impressed me today."
No doubt the reason Murray is on his way to Edgar Street will become clearer in time.
Matt Murray's Profile (adapted from Wikipedia and other sources):
Murray, a youth trainee with Wolves, spent several seasons of his early career out of contention through injury. He suffered a cruciate knee injury just twenty minutes into a loan spell at non-league Kingstonian in October 2000.
He was promoted into Wolves' first team on 31 August 2002 against Wimbledon, deputising for the injured Michael Oakes, and then keeping his place through that season. The season ended with him producing a man-of-the-match performance in the Play-off final in May 2003, where he produced a number of vital saves to help the club win promotion to the Premier League, the pick being a second-half penalty save from Michael Brown.
He followed this up by debuting for England Under-21s, against Slovakia U21, before a foot fracture wrecked his second season. In the three years that followed the success of 2002/03, he only played seven games for Wolves due to a variety of injuries.
The goalkeeper next played in January 2005 but soon suffered another break to his foot, ruling him out for a further year. By March 2006 he was fit enough to be sent on loan to Tranmere Rovers, but was called back to his parent club within a month because of possible injuries to other goalkeepers Stefan Postma and Michael Oakes.
He started his first game for Wolves in almost sixteen months on the final day of the season at Norwich City, and managed to retain his place at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, where he was largely acredited with Wolves' impressive start to the season, due to a catalogue of good performances allowing for five of their first seven games to end 1–0.
Due to Murray's excellent form during the season he was rewarded with a new three-and-a-half year contract in December 2006, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2009/10 season; the same month also saw him received the PFA Championship Player of the Month award. At the end of the season, he was named in the Championship Team of the Year at the 2006–07 PFA Awards dinner and also voted the PFA Fans' Player of the Year for the division. He was also voted Wolves' Player of the Season as they reached the play-offs.
However, the 2006/07 season ended on a sour note as he broke his shoulder on the eve of his club's vital play-off game. After spending the summer recouperating from this injury, he suffered another setback from a cruciate knee injury in pre-season training. He underwent two operations for this, and missed the whole of the 2007/08 campaign while undergoing rehabilitation with the aim of returning for the new season. However, inflammation in his knee then postponed his comeback further still.
He is currently sufficiently fit to have had several outings in Wolves reserve team. He almost moved to Milton Keynes Dons on loan in October 2008 but this was scrapped after Carl Ikeme had a slight injury and Murray was retained as back-up. On 7 November 2008, he joined Hereford United on loan.
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