Gillingham Ht Draw Ft @ 16/1
Is the very best Hereford can hope for in Saturday's FA Cup 1st Round
You've got to favour Gillingham even more now they've got their new manager, Steve Clemence, who looks to be a very good appointment, would you agree RC?
Our own manager, who is doing a great job, will be watching the game from the stand after receiving a third yellow card of the season during the 2-1 win at Chorley last weekend.
I've got my ticket and it should be a great occasion. Nearly 4500 tickets sold so far and the fans will be loud and proud if we can stop the Gills from taking a 2-0 lead.
Our main striker Jason Cowley made a 10 minute appearance from the subs bench last week, after being out injured since the opening game of the season. If he features Saturday it'll be a massive boost for us.
He's 100/30 to score anytime and 12/1 to score first but the likely hood is, he wont have too much game time after being out for so long.
Him coming off the bench to earn us a reply is a possibility, albeit a very small one.
We beat Rochdale at home in the last round, who are a league above us, in a very tight game but the gap up to a potential League 2 winner, is too big. We need the gods to be with us and maybe the underworld too, to have any chance.
In years gone by we'd of cut up the pitch and turned it into a potato field to play on, just to make it a bit more of a leveller but those days have gone, as we have more ambition in the league.
We've gone quite the opposite in fact. Ben Bowen (Jarod Bowen's uncle), Hereford's groundsman, has done a cracking job on the pitch the past week or so. Even re-laying one end.
Ben Bowen - Another night shift
We love the FA Cup and its a year to the day that we lost the great Ronnie Radford.
We can dream for a little longer yet.
COYW