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| Hereford Chairman Jon Hale With Colin Addison and John Motson |
Hereford chairman Jon Hale has suggested that the club may need more investmentin the near future.
"The point has been made many times probably does need investment going foward," said Hale in an interview with BBC Hereford and Worcester,
"It's the sort of thing the board of directors have got to look at.
"There are controls in place for the right reasons, we don't want any Tom, Dick or Harry coming into the club and taking it over and leading it down the wrong path.
"We've got to work with the Supporters Trust on that and look at what we can do in the future.
"Are we in a position to go up, you would imagine on the back of a promotion run that we would have had a very good season, very strong attendances and the revenue base of the club would have gone up as well, it's a big step.
"Full time, I'm not so sure it's as big as some people think it is between where we are now and full time.
"But it is a step up and obviously we would have to have investment into the football club to make sure that we were not just going up there for one season and falling straight back down again. That would never be the intention, we would want to go up and stay up and then look again.
"It's something we've got to look at.
"I believe if push came to shove and we did get promotion it would be alright, we would be able to go full time.
"But it would again need some serious planning and that planning has already been talked about, we are talking about it, we are not ignoring it because we could have ended up going up this season. We didn't but if we did next season we would make sure we were ready.
"There are a number of ex Football League sides in the National Prem but then again there are in National North.
"It is a big step and I watched quite a few of the play-off games in the National Prem and the standard is basically Football League. It is the Division Five of the Football League.
"So yes there is that to think about and obviously you've got to buy the players in who can cope with that level of football.
"We've probably lost players to National Prem that are good enough but probably not that many. Most of the players who have gone from us have gone to the same level so that kind of shows where we are at the moment and where we need to be.
"Again if you had a successful season and you built those revenues up through big attendances and everything that goes with it on a match day then I'd like to think we would be in a good position to push on and get in the National Prem and look up again.
"But at the moment it's all a grand wish."