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Turner remains upbeat
Despite the poor accounts that have just been released, Hereford United chairman Graham Turner remains optimistic about the club's future.
"We know there is a sword hanging over the club in the terms that we are contracted to pay £1m plus back to the developer in May 2003," he told the Evening News. "But it all hinges on some sort of development in and around the football ground and it is part of a 26 acre site and too big a concern for the council and developers to allow us to go out of business.
"The current situation is not this board's doing, it was all in place before we took over. We inherited all this but there has got to be a way to ensure the club survives and that means the developers have got to get some return on their million pounds. There is 4.6 acres alone that we lease so there have got to be ways and means of satisfying everybody.
"I'm quite optimistic that all that can be achieved with the good will of the council and that needs them to recognise the importance of the football club to the community."
Meanwhile, Hereford United trialist Neil Gough has linked up with Heybridge Swifts of the Ryman League.
