Venue: Edgar Street Date: 26-12-24 Hereford FC 0 Harriers 3 Att: 4925 (away fans: 700) |
Can we blame the floodlights and the fog?
Report: Phil Lench
After all the faff from Hereford FC about the floodlight problems, then the dropping down of the fog, the one thing they didn’t account for was the possibility of them not turning up on the day. Don’t get it wrong the Harriers were nothing short of brilliant today but not to even try and compete against us on their big day was embarrassing.
In front of a full house of almost five thousand fans in the Christmas spirit it was a bit murky out there but it was the Reds that started the game well and in charge. The unchanged side from the Southport victory soon go on the score sheet when some poor defending from Hereford allowed Ryley Reynolds to wriggle free with the ball and play it across to Zak Brown who scored with a similar strike and result as Ashley Hemmings did last Saturday. The ball screaming into the net via the underside of the bar.
Before that opening goal we had already come close to opening the scoring when Hemmings fired into the side netting and Amari Morgan-Smith had forced the tiny keeper, Tom Donaghy, into a block. After the goal we continued to get close to scoring a second.
Reynolds kept fighting for the ball and eventually played in Tope Obadeyi in to fire in on the angle while soon after Joe Foulkes went close with a header that went just past the Bulls upright. Zak could have grabbed a second with a shot that went over the bar and while all this was going on Hereford were doing very little to score themselves. Their only real chance of the half came on the stroke of half time when Tate Campbell managed to get past our defenders and fire in a shot that came back off the bar.
A warning shot.
HT: 0 – 1
If you expected Hereford to come back out fighting then you were seriously mistaken. It must be our full time status that was frightening them.
It took just five minutes to increase our lead and that was thanks to an almighty cock up from their keeper as he came out of his area to close down Obadeyi. He had just collected a ball played down the touchline and seeing his chance he drew the keeper in then lobbed the ball over his head and into the back of the net.
We sat back a bit but still continued to look for a third goal. Only because we were being allowed too but that sounds too simple.
Kam Kandola and Hemmings both hit the woodwork and then AMS sealed to game, and the points, for us when he collected to ball on the edge of the area with no one to close him down. He lifted the ball up, over and down behind Donaghy and into the net for our third goal of the day. A day when we saw three fine goals, a superb display from the Harriers and a place at the very top of the table for the first time this season.
What a day to be a Harriers supporter.
Just a word about the referee. Don’t listen to the home supporters dear. They don’t call the shots, you do.
FT: 0 – 3
Goals for Harriers: Brown 10, Obadeyi 50, Morgan-Smith 88
The Harriers Online MotM is: Zak Brown
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Hereford FC | Goals | Subs | Time | Cards |
Donaghy | ||||
Robinson | ||||
Hudson | ||||
Howkins | ![]() |
67 | ||
Preston | ![]() |
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D’Ath | ![]() |
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Ceesay | ||||
Campbell | ![]() |
67 | ||
Cowley | ![]() |
55 | ||
Mitchell | ![]() |
55 | ||
White | ![]() |
55 | ||
Subs: | ||||
Bartley | ![]() |
67 | ||
Williams | ![]() |
55 | ||
Babos | ![]() |
67 | ||
McGlynn | ![]() |
55 | ||
Rose | ![]() |
55 | ||
Harriers | Goals | Subs | Time | Cards |
Dibble | ||||
Foulkes | ![]() |
92 | ![]() |
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Richards | ||||
Kandola | ||||
Downing | ||||
McNally | ||||
Brown | ![]() |
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89 | |
Reynolds | ||||
Morgan-Smith | ![]() |
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Hemmings | ![]() |
84 | ||
Obadeyi | ![]() |
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65 | |
Subs: | ||||
Palmer | ||||
Devine | ![]() |
92 | ||
Kouhyar | ![]() |
84 | ||
Kellermann | ![]() |
89 | ||
Davis | ![]() |
65 | ||
Referee: | ||||
Ms Stacey Pearson | ||||
Bristol |