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Next Game: Pre-Season

Thursday, July 11, 2019

It's Yeovil At Bideford On Friday Evening


Hereford FC have two pre-season friendlies this weekend. The first, on Friday evening is against Yeovil and the second on Sunday is against Bideford. Both are taking place at Bideford's ground.

The Bulls are set to leave Hereford at mid-day on Friday for what as been described as a 'bonding' weekend. 

Not all the squad is expected to travel, some of the youngsters who have featured in the first two friendlies will miss out.

"I think we've been looking forward to this weekend away (at Bideford)," said head coach Marc Richards after Monday's game.

"I think it will be good to get all the lads in the same vicinity where we can get a bit of team building going as well.

"We'll be taking a smaller squad away for the weekend so won't have the numbers we had at Wellington and at Cinderford."

Richards wasn't sure whether any of the trialists will have signed before the weekend.

"The ideal situation would be to have some signed but there's a lot more logistics that probably go into it with some of these trialists. It's not straight forward."  

Whilst Mike Symons isn't quite fit, new signing Jason Pope is expected to play some part in the friendlies.

As for Yeovil, they've dropped out of the Football League and so will be in the National Premier League this season, in effect one level higher than Hereford.

They have new owners, Scott Priestnall and Errol Pope, who along with Jed McCrory bought a large part of Worcester Warriors last year. 

And they have a new manager Darren Sarll. He has brought in Andrew Crofts from Newport County as player-coach.

Players arriving include Stevenage defender Luke Wilkinson, Chelmsford City striker Rhys Murphy and defender Lee Collins from Forest Green Rovers.

Former Dundee centre-back Tom Bradbury is their latest signing. 

The game kicks off at 7.30pm and adult admission is £5.