Akwuegbu - He's a Powerful Boy

Hereford United manager John Trewick will continue to look at striker Benedict Akwuegbu. The Nigerian came on for the Bulls in the second half of last evening's friendly against Bristol Rovers.

The Bulls' boss told BBC Hereford and Worcester Akwuegbu has the experience but he needs to prove his fitness.

"He's an ex-Nigerian international, played 30 times for his country so he knows what he is doing," said Trewick who likened him to former Bull Guy Ipoua.

"He can certainly play the game as he is a powerful boy who is good in the air with a good strike.

"Whether he can regain that level of fitness is a guess but I am going to go along with him for a while and see what develops."

Trewick is taking sometime to make up his mind about several other trialists.

"I'll probably have to be patient a little bit so I'll give the boys who are in a the moment a fair crack of the whip and then decide.

"It would be fair to say there are still additional places to be had in the squad.

"We're without three players - Darren Dennehy, Darren Jones and Glen Southam, who has been injured for a while, so Glen as attacking player will give us an extra dimension when he comes back in."

As regards last night's friendly Trewick thought the game had been a good one coming as it did before the final friendly against Walsall on Saturday.

"It was a good workout for us.

I'm obviously disappointed with the result as I thought at half-time that we had had the best chances in the first half.

"Missing a penalty in the second half was a little bit disappointing.

"We started a little bit sloppily in the second half and paid for it but it was a good work out so I am relatively happy.

"Marc Pugh caused a few problems and Lee Morris was a threat as well.

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