It’s a second consecutive away game, at Ebbsfleet on Good Friday, after Tuesday night’s stonker at Solihull followed the 0-0 stinker at home to Woking, and we will try to extend our unbeaten run to a dozen games.
Over the course of the last 10 games, ourselves and The Fleet are two of the most in form teams in the National League so let’s hope the game lives up to expectations.
Ebbsfleet looked dead and buried around Christmas, but since our former academy coach Danny Searle took over as manager they haven’t looked back and now look reasonably safe and should be heading for a mid-table finish, although with things so tight at the bottom they’re certainly not safe yet being only 3 points outside the relegation zone. Searle has had an interesting career since leaving us, including a spell as assistant manager at Banik Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He’s certainly a well qualified coach and seems to be putting all those qualifications to good use by getting his new team purring.
They have a couple of former blues in their squad - Josh Wright in their midfield and Dominic Poleon up front, although he was kept out of the starting line up in their last game by Rakish Bingham who scored a hat-trick in their 4-2 win over high-flying Gateshead. Luke O’Neill is also at the club (thanks @Zeuss for pointing this out) but wasn’t involved in their last match day squad.
Fleet’s game at Halifax last Saturday was postponed (less than an hour before kick off!) and they didn’t play midweek so will have had nearly a fortnight off by the time we play them.
Now that we have a reasonably full squad, Kev has the chance to rotate the players to keep them fresh but on the back of Tuesday’s victory at Solihull it would be pretty harsh to drop anybody and he may opt to freshen things up from the bench instead.
So who would you start in our first competitive game at the Kuflink stadium in front of another huge away following, and what do you predict the result will be?
Over the course of the last 10 games, ourselves and The Fleet are two of the most in form teams in the National League so let’s hope the game lives up to expectations.
Ebbsfleet looked dead and buried around Christmas, but since our former academy coach Danny Searle took over as manager they haven’t looked back and now look reasonably safe and should be heading for a mid-table finish, although with things so tight at the bottom they’re certainly not safe yet being only 3 points outside the relegation zone. Searle has had an interesting career since leaving us, including a spell as assistant manager at Banik Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He’s certainly a well qualified coach and seems to be putting all those qualifications to good use by getting his new team purring.
They have a couple of former blues in their squad - Josh Wright in their midfield and Dominic Poleon up front, although he was kept out of the starting line up in their last game by Rakish Bingham who scored a hat-trick in their 4-2 win over high-flying Gateshead. Luke O’Neill is also at the club (thanks @Zeuss for pointing this out) but wasn’t involved in their last match day squad.
Fleet’s game at Halifax last Saturday was postponed (less than an hour before kick off!) and they didn’t play midweek so will have had nearly a fortnight off by the time we play them.
Now that we have a reasonably full squad, Kev has the chance to rotate the players to keep them fresh but on the back of Tuesday’s victory at Solihull it would be pretty harsh to drop anybody and he may opt to freshen things up from the bench instead.
So who would you start in our first competitive game at the Kuflink stadium in front of another huge away following, and what do you predict the result will be?
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