Josh Gowling gave an interview to BBC Radio Carlisle yesterday and in it he spoke about his time at Edgar Street.
"It was brilliant at Hereford, it is close to home, I am from Coventry so it is an hour drive from Coventry. The manager, John Trewick, was my youth manager at West Brom so it was brilliant to see him again. It was unfortunate that obviously they went down but it is a great club and a great bunch of lads so I really enjoyed it," said Gowling as reported by CUFC Online.
"They spoke to me on quite a few occasions saying that they wanted me to go up there, because I spoke to them last summer as well. So they definitely wanted me to stay but obviously I am under contract at Carlisle so I was there just to play some games and help them out really, it didn't quite work out like that because they got relegated, but never mind.
"I have spoken to Greg (Abbott) finally and I have got a meeting with him on Monday I think, so we are going to sit down and discuss where I lie in his plans, and then just take it from there really. I came to Carlisle because I wanted to push on and get in the Championship and play with Carlisle, so that is still in the forefront of my mind.
"Obviously last season I was a bit upset with the way that no-one bothered with me really. Because I went out on loan to Hereford to play games, to do well and to get myself back in the Carlisle team, but that didn't happen. I am looking forward to the season though, I have been doing a lot of weight training and things like that because I know that I need to get a bit stronger, so I have been doing that. Obviously I have been injured with this operation but I am trying to kick on really, so hopefully I will be back next season, it depends what Greg wants to do really."
Gowling has recently had an operation on his nose which was broken in a game last August.
"My nose operation was painful, so I am still speaking like a bit of an idiot, but it is not too bad. I think that it was my first reserve game, smashed in the nose by Lee Thorpe, so yes, brilliant. Everyone else saw it but the referee didn't. Basically I broke the nose and your septum, which is up inside the nose, was deviating, so it was bent across.
"So I couldn't really breathe properly when I was running and things like that, which is obviously a problem, so the surgeon basically said that I needed to wait until the season finished because I needed a bit of a long rest. So I obviously waited for the off-season and then got it done, I think that it was last Monday I got it done."