Poole Town arrive in North Devon 2 points clear at the top of the division with games in hand on both Corby Town and Weymouth who are joint second, and are now the bookies favourites to gain automatic promotion to the Conference South.
They are also massive bookies favourites to return to Dorset with all 3 points from this fixture as they arrive boasting the meanest defence in the league with just a miserly 15 goals conceded from their 25 matches played, 9 goals better than Hungerford who sit second with 24. Only 4 have been conceded in their last 10. The impressive stats keep coming too with 19 wins and only 4 losses from their league season so far, both of which are the best in the division.
Their most recent form sees them with 3 wins and a loss from their last 4 games, Scoring 8 and conceding just the 2.
http://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/form/poole?count=4
Results from last 8 games (most recent top):
W | Slough Town | A | 4 | - | 0 |
W | Chippenham Town | H | 3 | - | 1 |
L | Redditch United | H | 0 | - | 1 |
W | Burnham | H | 1 | - | 0 |
D | Dorchester Town | H | 0 | - | 0 |
W | Frome Town | A | 1 | - | 0 |
L | Corby Town | A | 0 | - | 1 |
W | Dunstable Town | H | 1 | - | 0 |
Recent match reports:
v Redditch Utd -
http://www.pooletownfc.co.uk/170115-poole-town-v-redditch-united/v Chippenham -
http://www.pooletownfc.co.uk/200115-poole-town-v-chippenham-town/v Slough -
http://www.pooletownfc.co.uk/240115-slough-town-v-poole-town/
Poole Town on video:
v Dorchester -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0Y9k4lXBcv Redditch Utd -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAuSIhLkFU
Last season saw two draws between the teams, with a 3-3 result in Dorset and a goalless encounter at the Sports Ground.
Club website: http://www.pooletownfc.co.uk/Twitter account: https://twitter.com/PooleTownFCFans Forum: http://samspud.proboards.com/board/3/poole-town-football-club
Biddy have lost just once now in their last 6 games in all comps, scoring 13 and conceding 4 and have kept a clean sheet in 3 of their 4. A win in this game could see them move up to 14th place dependent on the result of Cirencester v Paulton Rovers. This will be Chris McGrath's last match before he starts his 3 match suspension.
Fixture:
Southern League Premier
Teams:
Bideford AFC v Poole Town FC
Date:
Tuesday 27th January
Kick-off:
7.45pm