Hereford 4th resumed their Gerrard West of England and South Wales League North-East West District 4 programme in fine style with an excellent 5-0 success at Gloucester City 5th.

Only able to field 10 men and with injuries causing several team members, including leading scorer Chris Moody, to miss the game, Hereford nevertheless made the early running and took the lead when Dan Little received the ball in front of goal and fired home.

Phil Cottier extended the lead shortly afterwards and then a deflected shot from Malcolm Rogers fell to Luke Appleby who gave the city side a comfortable lead at the interval.

Despite their man advantage, Gloucester were still unable to make any headway at the start of the second period and Cottier added his second goal before some more fine play by Rogers saw the midfielder, who had earlier struck a post, grab a deserved goal.

Hereford 1st, whose league programme gets underway again next Saturday, went down to a 3-2 defeat in their friendly at Whitchurch while Hereford 3rd were thumped 5-0 at home by local rivals Ross.

Skipper Andy Ridgway opened the scoring with a penalty flick and went on to complete his hat-trick inside the first half-hour with second-half strikes from Adrian Williams and Andy Layton rounding off a fine afternoon for the South Herefordshire side.