Match Preview

Next up - AFC Hornchurch home on Saturday, 11th March at Wodson Park, SG12 0UQ, Ryman Isthmian League Div 1 North. Kick off 3pm.

Admission £8, £4 concessions, under-14s free with a paying adult.

Tuesday's draw has lifted spirits after a run of five defeats, four of those against sides at the top of the table, but there is no let up as we welcome AFC Hornchurch, another side in the play-off places. We were well beaten in the away game back in December and will want to avoid another bad performance on our own pitch.

Hornchurch lost 2-1 at home to Cheshunt last Saturday and although that defeat and Thurrock's win at Maldon dropped them a place in the table they are still 4th and five points clear of fifth placed Bowers & Pitsea though they do have a game in hand. Interestingly Bowers travel to meet Hornchurch on the last day of the season.

The Cheshunt defeat was their first league reverse in ten games, in fact since a 2-0 defeat at Thurrock on January 3rd. We can expect them to be fired up to recover their momentum in the chase for a good finishing place. They have won ten and drawn five of their nineteen away games in the league so far this season, their four away defeats coming at Bowers, Maldon, Thurrock and Soham. In advance of the game at Ware Hornchurch have re-signed Abs Seymour from Billericay and signed John Easterford who played against us this season when he was with Great Wakering Rovers

The programme for this game (still £1.50 on the gate) will give more information on the history of our visitors plus pen pictures of their players. Aiden's "Tractor Tales" discusses Arsenal's heavy defeat in Europe this week and poses the question of whether it's better to win games at unspecified cost or to safeguard a club for the future. "Past programmes" covers the 2015 FA Trophy match between Corinthian Casuals and Three Bridges and the home side's links with the late Jimmy Hill.

Our ten latest games against AFC Hornchurch:-

Our best and worst against AFC Hornchurch and its predecessors:-