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Purdie has improved
Rob Purdie has definitely improved as the season has gone on and has genuine potential to progress in the game says Hereford United manager Graham Turner. Both Purdie and Ian Wright should start for the Bulls at Scarborough tommorrow.
" I think he has a terrific amount of skill. We see it in training every week and it was interresting the reaction of the supporters when he came on last week, they were chanting his name. When a new player gets that sort of treatment, I think he grows in confidence and you can see it coming. I think he has the prospect of being a very good player.
Turner is looking for a good effort to keep close to a play-off place.Currently the Bulls are on the same points as fifth placed Chester who have played one game less.
With just eight games to play Turner has stressed there is no room for slip-ups but is under no illusions about the size of the task facing them at the McCain Stadium tomorrow.
"Scarborough are eighth in the table but they won at Leigh last week and are not out of it yet," he said.
"Prior to that they didn't have the best of runs which has taken them out of the play-off reckoning but they won't have given it up and we know it is going to be a tough game.
"It will be a severe test of our credentials but if we want to earn a play-off spot we have to take something from the game and we need at least four points from our next two games."
Meanwhile Turner expects Ben Smith to be full of confidence after his headed goal in the 2-0 defeat of Kettering Town last weekend.
"Ben thrives on goals and is always prepared to have a go and that goal will have done his confidence a power of good," he added.