In a video interview on the official site, Graham Turner adds further woes to the ground situation with the news that the terracing under the former Len Weston stand will also have it's capacity cut.

In the interview, Turner says that while the crush barriers were tested fine they are now too long for current regulations and that they will have to be cut to make additional walkways - bringing the capacity of Edgar Street further down. Turner hopes, once the final calculations are done, that the capacity will remain above the Football League requirements of 5,000.

Turner will seek permission from the Football Licencing Authority to allow some people to stand on the flat area at the front of the Merton Meadow but, he acknowledged, that the letter of the laws was against the request.

After forcing Accrington to install seats that may never be used, and leaving vast plains empty at Edgar Street, the people who write the ground grading regulations have sloping pitches in their sights.

Barnet chairman Tony Kleanthous, in the second part of his interview with their supporters association, says the most recent review of ground regulations wanted to increase minimum capacities and banish slopes from pitches: "As it stands now, we meet the League criteria. The problem is that as little as two years ago there was another Football League working party set up to look at ground criteria. Fortunately I managed to get on that working party.

"I found that there were only two things on the whole agenda: one was what the stadium entrance capacity should be - whether or not it should go back to being 6,000 - and the other was what the allowable slope on a pitch should be. We dealt with that issue, but we all know that eventually we'll be told enough is enough. You cannot carry on with a pitch like ours; the slope is just not acceptable. And then we have this problem that if you straighten the slope, you have to straighten all the stands too. We just don't have the room here."

Kleanthous also notes further changes to other parts of the regulations that will have to be complied with that will cost thousands to adhere to: "Just to give you an example of how difficult it is, each press box now has to have a writing station and an electricity point for each member of the press.

Most clubs would think 'Okay, it's a bit of work but we can deal with it'. But for us, having to provide each press person with their own electricity point means we won't have enough electricity on the site, so that's a major nightmare for me. We're having to work on rebalancing the power on the site because we actually don't have enough electricity coming into this site to run this ground. To fix that we'd have to buy a big transformer, but there's nowhere to put it and anyway they cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. So even the most minor things can cause a huge problem here.

"We even had times last year when we had to turn tea urns off in some of the tea huts because it was overloading the power. People don't realise some of the crazy things we live with. When the floodlights are on, we really struggle with power for anything else."

The full interview can be seen here.

Grimsby are to sign freed Leeds midfielder Peter Sweeney on a two year deal. He spent the last three months of last season at Blundell Park on loan, and he will be joined by Chester defender Paul Linwood. The 25 year old has agreed a three year deal. Barnet striker Paul Furlong will put his 40 year old body through pre-season training before deciding whether to sign the new contract put in front of him.

Crewe have accepted a bid from Scunthorpe for transfer listed midfielder Michael O'Connor, who fell out with boss Gudjon Thordarson shortly after the Icelander arrived at the club. They are also expecting Derby to come back with another offer for ex-Burton man John Brayford. Burton have confirmed making an offer to Kidderminster for midfielder Russell Penn, but it is thought to be way below the minimum £50,000 asking price.

The Official Hereford United website has confirmed that the Blackfriars Terrace will not be open for this coming season as it has failed a health and safety inspection. The news comes as a blow to the club as it may lead to reduced revenue from away teams with large followings, as they would often be given half of the terrace.

The news follows another health and safety rule which means that the capacity of the Meadow End has also been reduced slightly with no standing allowed on the flat areas of the terrace.

Supporters can only hope that some good can come from the announcment in that it may provide a real eye-opener to the Richardsons in that Edgar Street is in need of urgent re-development.

Theo Robinson has completed his switch from Watford to Huddersfield for an undisclosed fee. The 20 year old has signed a three year deal after the Terriers baulked at the £1million asking price of Bristol Rovers striker Rickie Lambert. Robinson told the local press: "I believe I'm good enough to play in the Championship. This is a big club with a genuine ambition to play in that division, which is where I want to be."

Dean Beckwith had other options other than Northampton, according to boss Stuart Gray: "We had to act quickly or we would have lost him and there were plenty of other clubs ready to pounce. That is why we had to act decisively with Mark Hughes. He had had a long enough period to decide if he wanted to stay. There was no decision from Mark or his agent so we made the decision for them. Had we not, we would have missed out on Dean."

Meanwhile returning loanee Darren Dennehy is surplus to requirements at Cardiff according to local reports. The Bluebirds have signed central defenders Mark Hudson and Anthony Gerrard, leaving the former Everton trainee still down the pecking order despite the departures of Roger Johnson and Darren Purse.

Herefordshire Council have been told the only solution to the impasse over the redevelopment of the Bulls' Edgar Street home is for them to buy the leases back and start work themselves.

Cllr. Terry James, head of the Community Services Scrutiny Committee, accused Formsole Ltd, the lease holders owned by Richardsons, of 'dragging its feet' and that the council should negotiate an early surrender of the leases with Formsole: The council needs to be proactive, not just for the club, but for its fans, who deserve better than they are getting,�

Graham Turner had originally wanted planning applications in place for at least one side of Edgar Street by the end of 2007 but, 18 months after that date, no planning application has been made and little work is envisaged for another 18 months with the credit crunch playing havoc with building plans across the world.

The Blackfriars End has always been earmarked as first for redevelopment with the stand shunted forward towards the pitch erasing the large areas of flat land, now rendered useless by the latest stadium rules, and leaving a sizable parcel of land at the rear of the stand for redevelopment.

But those plans were put into disarray towards the end of 2007 when the Edgar Street Grid board turned down proposals to site a fitness club, hotel, or cinema on the newly available land - with the board wanting to keep those commercial developments for their own land. Graham Turner's words at the time have now proved rather prophetic:

"I realise, of course, that the Edgar Street Grid board and developers are only concerned with maximising their prime site. However what it will do is leave us with few alternatives. My fear now is that the Richardsons, who have a number of projects on the go throughout Europe, will put the Edgar Street ground redevelopment on the back burner and adopt a wait-and-see attitude. That will leave us in a state of limbo."

On Sunday 19th July, Wellington FC will be holding a football match in memory of Greg Thomas. The Wellington team will be made up of players of the Wellington U16s from 07/08, the team in which Greg played. Providing the opposition will be the Hereford United Supporters team who recently helped raise around £800 for The Mayor�s charity. The Supporters team would welcome the addition of extra players. Please contact "Chesh" at will_cheshire@hotmail.com

Everyone is welcome, there will be refreshments available and there is an entry fee of £2. All money will be given to a charity of Greg's parents choice.The match will kick off at 1pm. Spectators should arrive anytime after midday. Wellington FC is situated in Wellington Village approximately 5 miles north of Hereford just off the A49. Take the turning into Wellington Village and the ground is behind the local school on the left after about 400 yards.

Greg was a keen football fan who enjoyed both playing and supporting The Bulls both at home and away. He left us on the 8th April 2009 aged just 16 years.

Please come and support this celebration of his life.

Darren Dennehy has returned to Edgar Street on loan from Cardiff until January.

Dean Beckwith has told BBC Northamptonshire that he has nothing to prove to his former employers, Hereford United, after he was released following a disappointing season for the player and club alike.

"I had three very good years at Hereford, but last season didn't go too well for anyone involved at the club. I want to have a better season than I did last year, but I don't think I've got anything to prove to Hereford." said Beckwith.

"I'm confident that I can perform at this level and in League One. Nobody wants to play in League Two. You want to play at your highest level, so obviously I want to try to get Northampton back into League One. I feel it's a good move for me. I'm going to be happy playing football, so hopefully I can produce my best football this year."

Beckwith joins another former Bull at Sixfields with Steve Guinan also having joined Stuart Gray's team.

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