HEREFORD United are confident that a second successive blank Saturday won't seriously affect their Nationwide Conference title push.

Graham Turner's men must sit it out again tomorrow before travelling to Scarborough on Tuesday for their first match in 17 days.

"Only time will tell whether the break has been beneficial," said Turner. "We will see at Scarborough on Tuesday.

"But a break is something we have not been averse to for some time, and the Premiership have now voted to have a break themselves from next season.

"I think it should have done the players a little bit of good. We have done some hard work in training and we played a practice match at Oxford this week of three half-hour periods, with all the players getting an hour."

Turner is hopeful that leading scorer Steve Guinan and defender Andy Tretton will both be fit to face Scarborough, although he added a cautionary note.

"We have to be careful. There is still a lot of football to be played and we don't want to race players back and then lose them for another period of time.

"We hope to ease them in but they won't be too far off being in contention for Tuesday."

United, who are six points behind leaders Chester with a game in hand, are at home to Burton Albion next Saturday.