Our first game of 2017 & we're at home to our good friends from up the coast, 2nd placed Whitby - kick off 3pm. You've spent the last week going stir crazy in the house whilst distant relatives consume every bit of food & drink in your cupboards - so get up the Lane & blow the cobwebs off & get behind the boys.

Sam & Bailey are still unavailable but both are about to start training & Julian Lawrence will have a fitness test before the game.

Andre Johnson will be making his home debut although he played in the away fixture at Spennymoor.

We will potentially have a new face in the squad too but the Webmaster is checking out the paperwork situation before he releases the big news!

Finally it's Ruth's birthday tomorrow so please feel free to festoon her with cards & gifts (gin mostly) as she leaves her teen years behind her & moves into her 20s