Back in May 2002 Hereford United captain Ian Wright was looking forward to a better season.
DESPITE finishing seventeenth in the Conference,
having no money for transfers and just six players in the current first
team squad, Hereford United captain Ian Wright is confident that his
side can push towards the top of the league next season.
An influx of new signings from the Football League is expected and Wright told the Evening News: "The aim is to get some decent players in and be up there challenging, especially with two teams going up next year.
"For the last two or three years it has been either one or two teams running away with it but with this play off place it opens it up. With around ten games to go we could have finished in the top five if results had gone our way but they didn't."
After home form let the side down in 2000/01, Wright blamed Hereford's away form for last season's disappointment. "We started off well and had a good cup run but we struggled in the league especially away from home," he said. "There was no particular reason for that other than perhaps that we were more confident at home. Everyone knows that defensively we are one of the best in the league it was just scoring that we struggled to do."
Wright will start his fifth season in Hereford colours in August and is still happy with life at Edgar Street. "I'm enjoying myself and was quite pleased with my own form and scored a couple of vital goals," he added.
Currently recovering from a double hernia operation, Wright was playing through the pain barrier at the end of last season to prevent a Hereford relegation and commented: "It was just a case of putting up with the pain as much as I could and it was only in the last couple of games that I had to come off."
An influx of new signings from the Football League is expected and Wright told the Evening News: "The aim is to get some decent players in and be up there challenging, especially with two teams going up next year.
"For the last two or three years it has been either one or two teams running away with it but with this play off place it opens it up. With around ten games to go we could have finished in the top five if results had gone our way but they didn't."
After home form let the side down in 2000/01, Wright blamed Hereford's away form for last season's disappointment. "We started off well and had a good cup run but we struggled in the league especially away from home," he said. "There was no particular reason for that other than perhaps that we were more confident at home. Everyone knows that defensively we are one of the best in the league it was just scoring that we struggled to do."
Wright will start his fifth season in Hereford colours in August and is still happy with life at Edgar Street. "I'm enjoying myself and was quite pleased with my own form and scored a couple of vital goals," he added.
Currently recovering from a double hernia operation, Wright was playing through the pain barrier at the end of last season to prevent a Hereford relegation and commented: "It was just a case of putting up with the pain as much as I could and it was only in the last couple of games that I had to come off."