​The Bulls were forced to postpone their planned National League North game against Spennymoor on Saturday following a pitch inspection on Friday. That means Paul Caddis’ side have played just one home league game since the start of November and now have a packed fixture list with matches every Saturday and Tuesday until the middle of April. If Hereford are forced to postpone many further games, they could be forced to play three times a week to conclude their fixture list. The club’s general manager Jamie Griffiths said that while 80 per cent of the pitch was playable ahead of Saturday’s postponed game there were five ‘problem areas’. “Ben (Bowen, the groundsman) has said that in the last six or seven days we’ve had rain more or less 24 hours a day,” said Griffiths. “I think there is up to 20 millimetres (of rain) on the pitch at the minute. It’s just got to a stage where it can’t take anymore.” Part of the problem is that heavy machinery was used on the pitch during the summer to install new floodlights at Edgar Street. The work resulted in Hereford being unable to play any pre-season games at Edgar Street while they tried to repair the damaged pitch. “He had the floodlights work done in the summer,” added Griffiths. “That’s kind of created two issues up in one corner and down in the corner of the Meadow End and Len Weston stand. “Very frustratingly, we’ve got three other main areas of concern, and we think that’s just down to the fact that the drainage has just kind of come to the end of its natural life. “It’s all come at once, unfortunately, there are three areas that aren’t anything to do with the floodlights, but the two other areas probably are. “We had to do the work to the floodlights because obviously, the lights, the bulbs were coming off and on during games last season. “We didn’t really have a choice of that.” The club’s award-winning groundsman Ben Bowen has been working hard and the club have resorted to a host of measures to try and ensure the games go ahead. “It’s frustrating,” added Griffiths. “I know Ben (Bowen) puts in an incredible amount of work. “There’s no one more frustrated than him, but it’s just nothing we can do with the pitch. “It’s not standing water. It’s kind of boggy condition, so you can fork it as much as you like. “You can chuck sand on it, but it just doesn’t really make any noticeable impact. “We’ve kind of done everything we can. We’ve earthquaked the pitch, we’ve slitted it, we verti-drain it regularly. “We’ve even had someone come in and basically blow air into the soil, half-a-meter down and try and open up the channels underground. “None of that’s really worked. It’s frustrating because 80% of the pitches is great.”