Mike Margetts laments a poor week for the Bulls:
Last weekend Hereford United were 3-1 to the good against a not particularly good Burton Albion side with half and hour to go and apparently cruising to a comfortable victory that would have sealed four home wins on the trot and sent fans home for the first time in a while with a few reasons to be cheerful.
The notion that the team would then concede ten goals without reply in two and a third games, and in the process drop nine points out of nine, would surely have attracted the most generous of odds from even the most cautious of bookmakers.
But as John Trewick and his not so merry men made their way back from Robin Hood territory yesterday they could hardly claim they had been robbed in any of the last three games.
The simple truth is that this Hereford team – no matter who seems to play –is just not up to it: indeed it is pure good fortune that the likes of Darlington and Grimsby are proving even more inept because otherwise the trapdoor back to the Blue Square Premier might well soon be creaking open.
It’s hard to believe that it was only two years ago that Hereford’s promotion push was in full swing and there were reasons to believe that the club might be on the brink of some sustained success.
Since those heady days, however, it has been pretty much downhill all the way and unless the management team can provide some much needed inspiration – and I assume the bizarre team selection at Meadow Lane was an attempt – it’s difficult with the current squad to see things getting much better.
And if they don’t will we soon be seeing the first sub-thousand attendance for a Football League fixture at Edgar Street? I wouldn’t bet against it…