The Physios have swapped sides

Hereford United travel to Yeovil tomorrow for another League One match and whilst there are no links on the pitch, off the pitch is a different matter.

Yeovil's physio is former Hereford United physio Wayne Jones, whilst Jamie Pitman, now the Bulls' physio, used to play for Yeovil.

Jones moved to Huish Park earlier this season and within hours Jamie Pitman was on his way to Edgar Street from Forest Green where he had been assistant manager to Jimmy Harvey, who used to play for the Bulls.

Jones's move appeared to come out of the blue. He had been at Edgar Street for four seasons when the physio position at Yeovil became vacant. He took the job saying that it was nearer to his home which is in Kent.

However Jones knew then manager Russell Slade. The two had worked together at Notts County when Slade was manager for a short period in late 1994.

Reportedly as soon as Jones left, Graham Turner was on the phone to Pitman who had expressed his wish to return to Edgar Street if an opportunity ever arose.

"I think it was last Tuesday that we first had a phone call from Yeovil to say that Wayne was going to them. We hadn't got an inkling that anything, in that respect, was happening," said Turner at the time.

"But then Wayne did tell me he had been offered the physio roll there and was going to go as it was closer to home which is in Kent.

"So we needed a physio very quickly.

"Jamie - it's perhaps ironic that when I last saw him in the boardroom we told him we weren't offering him a new contract but I was sure that some time in the future we would work together and he would come into the club as physio because I knew he had his qualifications. Two, three years later he is back with us."

Pitman has had his fair share of work this season with injuries to players. Ever Bull has missed a League game with injury this season with the exception of Toumani Diagouraga.

Meanwhile Slade has been linked with the vacant manager's job at Brighton which Stockport's Jim Gannon turned down last week.

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