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The Bulls are back in cup action on Tuesday night with the visit of Aldershot in the Johnstones Paint Trophy.
It is just a month since the Bulls, still chasing a first League win, went to the Recreation Ground and took a 2-0 lead before capitulating in the final few minutes. Seven of the players the Bulls fielded that day didn't play in the draw with Dagenham on Saturday, such is the change over the past month. This meeting will be the first in the variously named Trophy since 1989, when the Bulls won 3-2 to qualify from a group that included Birmingham City.
We'd like to say the Bulls will shuffle the pack and give some of the fringe players a go on Tuesday night, but no-one is sure who the fringe players actually are anymore. Such is the volume of changes in playing personnel this season that only Adam Bartlett has played in every game. Edrissa Sonko, who John Trewick admitted wasn't fully fit, will hope to get a first appearance in a Bulls shirt.
Aldershot are heading towards the end of a major injury crisis, and are likely to give run outs to a number of players that are feeling their way back into first team contention. Such was the depth of their problems that defender Chris Blackburn was fielded in midfield with seven players out. Since we met them a month ago they had been unbeaten until Saturday's loss to Lincoln, but they haven't scored from open play in either of their last two games after putting four past Cheltenham.
Hereford United vs Aldershot Town, Edgar Street, Tuesday 6th October, 7.45pm.
