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Next Game: Banbury Away On Friday March 29th Kick-Off 3.00pm

Monday, February 20, 2006

Robbie King and Matthew Halliday

Below are profiles of the two new signings at Hereford United:

Robbie King from Colchester United: (from official Colchester Website)

Date of Birth: 01-10-86
Height: 5ft 11in
Weight: 12st 5lbs
Position: Midfielder

Combative midfielder who currently captains the club's youth team. Led his young team-mates to the Quarter Finals of the FA Youth Cup in 2004/5 and has been a regular traveller with the U's first team squad during the course of the current campaign.

Robbie is another of the youth team products that has made an impression on the first team substitutes' bench during the course of the season. The skipper of the U's junior team, he has regularly trained with the first team and he will be hoping to make his debut in 2005/06.

He has made three sub appearances for the first team this season.

Matthew Harding from Norwich: (From The Pink'Un)

Position: Defender
Date of Birth: 23rd January 1987
Home town: Gorleston

Matthew is a third year scholar at the club and he first made an impact with City when he was part of the Northern Ireland Milk Cup winning team in 2001, forming a good partnership with fellow second year scholar Jake Osborne.

He is a tall solid defender with a great attitude, and also can play on the deck with a good passing ability. Matthew has recently begun to feature in the reserves and his development over the next few years will be monitored closely.

Halliday played for the Norwich U18's on Saturday in their 2-1 win over Crystal Palace U18's.