So it's our second trip to the Victoria Ground this season, last time was for the first game of King Kev's reign and ended in a disappointing 3-0 defeat. Given our recent upturn in form, one would hope for a slightly better result this coming Saturday in what is our last realistic hope for another trip to Wembley this season.
Daggers' form has been a bit up and down since beating us on 23rd October. Following that victory their next 7 games yielded 5 defeats, 1 win and 1 draw, then followed a 6 game unbeaten run which takes them up to last Saturday's draw at Torquay where they came back from being 2-0 down.
Harrison Neal is cup-tied for this game, so Blues will have to find another all action central midfielder from somewhere to cover for him. It might have been a good game to give Leon Davies a first run out, but he's also cup-tied having played for Weymouth in the last round. Ollie Kensdale, however, did not play for Concord in the second round so should be able to feature.
The injuries picked up by Rhys Murphy and Will Atkinson are a little concerning and whether Kev will risk either of them ahead of 3 big league games against teams around us coming up in the next fortnight remains to be seen.
We won't have as many fans there as in the league game, but with the dearth of Saturday afternoon football at Roots Hall this season, one would hope that there is a decent following given how close to home we are.
Anyway, given what we know about player availability, who would you select and what do you predict the result will be?
Daggers' form has been a bit up and down since beating us on 23rd October. Following that victory their next 7 games yielded 5 defeats, 1 win and 1 draw, then followed a 6 game unbeaten run which takes them up to last Saturday's draw at Torquay where they came back from being 2-0 down.
Harrison Neal is cup-tied for this game, so Blues will have to find another all action central midfielder from somewhere to cover for him. It might have been a good game to give Leon Davies a first run out, but he's also cup-tied having played for Weymouth in the last round. Ollie Kensdale, however, did not play for Concord in the second round so should be able to feature.
The injuries picked up by Rhys Murphy and Will Atkinson are a little concerning and whether Kev will risk either of them ahead of 3 big league games against teams around us coming up in the next fortnight remains to be seen.
We won't have as many fans there as in the league game, but with the dearth of Saturday afternoon football at Roots Hall this season, one would hope that there is a decent following given how close to home we are.
Anyway, given what we know about player availability, who would you select and what do you predict the result will be?
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