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Turner backs Westley after Boro switch
Stevenage Borough boss Graham Westley has received support from United manager Graham Turner ahead of Saturday's clash at Edgar Street.
Westley has faced much criticism since his move from Farnborough last month, when he signed a number of players several days later who had just been released by Farnborough.
Turner told the Hereford Times: "I realise that there have been some strange goings on but I appreciate that Farnborough could not afford to keep the players and there was mutual agreement to the transfers. The fresh players should rejuvenate Stevenage but they will not have had much match practice as their away games at Telford, last Saturday, and Dagenham and Redbridge, on Tuesday, were both postponed."
Of his own side's gameplan, Turner continued: "It is important that we get amongst them early and do not give them time to settle. We must continue our push up the table and, although I would have settled for four points from our last two away games, having won at Margate and got in front at Northwich, I was a little disappointed not to pick up all six points."
Hereford hope that both Ian Wright (jarred knee) and Matt Baker (hip) will be fit, but if the latter misses out, Ken Griffiths could make his first league start in goal for United. Danny Williams is back after suspension, and Matt Clarke is two weeks away from returning to the first team despite restarting training after a knee operation.
Defender Jason Goodliffe is a doubt for Stevenage with a thigh problem, and boss Westley said: "It's a tough match. Not many teams go up there and go away with three points."
Meanwhile, the Hereford Times report that a £250,000 contract has been awarded to a consortium of consultants that will formulate the Edgar Street Grid redevelopment project. However, the initiative hangs on the relocation of the cattle market and the passing of a Bill to do so. If this gets the go-ahead, work could start as early as the end of the year, and finish in about 2010.