Pre-season going well says Turner

In his weekly interview with Trevor Owens of BBC Hereford and Worcester, Hereford United manager Graham Turner spoke about pre-season preparations.

"I'm pleased with the attitude of the players and the general level of fitness, great spirit amongst the players already.

"We got the balls out on the first day. We've been to Gloucester University to do all the endurance tests. We've had the dietician in with fat content tests. For a small club we are as professional as we can be.

"You talk to some of the newcomers - have you done this before. No, most of them have never experienced this before. So we're fairly advanced in our training. Delighted to have facilities like we have at Gloucester University to do all the individual testing of players.

"We've got a couple of players that could do with losing a little bit of fat content but that will come next week through the pre-season programme.

Turner talked about the weights aspect.

"There's two aspects of it. We do some explosive work to improve power and pace and then we do a lot of upper body weights.

"Most of the modern players are very muscular and that comes as most clubs concentrate on upper body strength.

"I think the Second Division is going to be a fair test for us this season in our abiltity to deal with big strong sides. The vast majority of sides rely on power and pace."

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