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Sing your hearts out for the Bulls
There is a very important football match taking place at Edgar Street, Hereford this afternoon between Hereford United (the Bulls) and Aldershot Town (the Shots). The winner of this game will next play at the Brittania Stadium, Stoke against either Shrewsbury Town or Barnet who also play today. The winner at Stoke will move up to League Division Three. So there is all to play for and plenty of signing and cheering will help.
To all those lucky enough to be going to Edgar Street please support and encourage all the players during the game. Do not get negative and moan if a player makes a mistake. That player will know more than anyone a mistake has been made, so let’s make sure that the players only hear words of encouragement. Even on an 11 game winning streak, people still moan at players, how does that help; let the coaching staff do that. Let's help them enjoy the game and play to their best ability, and we will all end up happy in Division 3.
It's seven years since the Bulls were relegated to Conference football. Since then the club has had all sorts of problems thrown at them, but Graham Turner and his team have kept the club alive and the chance to regain League status have never been more deserved than at this time.
The players know they have to perform this afternoon like they have never performed before and the supporters must give the squad the best backing they can. Aldershot are not an easy team to play as the three encounters this season have shown. But if they have a weakness it is in defence and the Bulls will need run with the ball at them. Even then Nicki Bull, the Shots goalkeeper, will not easily be beaten and it will take a good effort to get past him.
Roscoe D'Sane is probably the Shots forward to watch out for. Impressive last Thursday, he will need to be marked closely. He scored from the penalty spot when Bulls captain Tony James was, perhaps harshly, judged to have pushed Ray Warburton.
However the Bulls are a full-time team - whereas the Shots are part-time - with strength on the bench as well as on the field. Even if both Steve Guinan and Rob Purdie are missing, there are others able to take their places. It is a tribute to Graham Turner that he have assembled this squad that are not realiant on just eleven or twelve players. When have the Bulls had five strikers on the books recently?
The Bulls have home advantage and, with a sell-out as far as their supporters are concerned, will get tremendous support from all four sides of the ground. The signing will probably be heard for miles around the City of Hereford.
As last Thursday, BBC Hereford & Worcester will cover the game both from their local transmitters and on the internet at bbc.co.uk/hereford. Although Sky are going to show the Shrewsbury/Barnet game they will also record the highlights from Edgar Street. It would be tremendous if the singing was so noisy it could be heard all over the world. Those Bulls fans in far-away corners of the Globe would feel as though they were at the Street. And when at around 4.45pm the result is known, assuming there is no need for the Bulls to have to win the game in extra time, maybe some of them will book a short holiday back in the United Kingdom which might just coincide with that game at Stoke a week next Sunday.