| Date: 23-09-23 Match preview Vs Eastleigh FC Venue: Silverlake Stadium Kick off: 15:00hrs |
Preview: Phil Lench
Hoping he can prove a point against his old club
After that fiasco at Gateshead on Tuesday evening it’s now off to the other end of the country to go face to face with Eastleigh FC. We all know what happened on Tyneside the other night and we don’t want to go over it all again apart from hoping that the team and management have looked at the incriminating video and taken on board the thoughts of the deeply disappointed fanbase.
If that game proved anything it’s that we are totally useless in both attack and in defence after failing again to get a single shot on goal and also failing to even attempt a challenge as Gateshead went on a thirty seven pass move and scored without one single player putting a foot in. Not acceptable!
We now have to hope that sometime today that, at the least, a new striker makes an appearance after being repeatedly told week in week out by Russ Penn that we are most certainly looking for one.
Now third from bottom of the table we have to begin to put results together soon and we can start that at Eastleigh tomorrow. They sit four places and four points above us in the table and were also on the end of a thrashing by Gateshead a few weeks ago when they lost 6-0 at home to them. They responded to that defeat by winning at AFC Fylde and drawing at home to Oxford City in the week.
We’ll still be without Shane Byrne for the game while Matt Preston must be close to a return by now. Hopefully he will be soon because by God don’t we need him.
The Spitfires have Corey Panter playing for them but it appears he can’t get into the team so maybe he’s the same for them as he was with us. In a swap, in a roundabout way, they let us have Gerry McDonagh though so let’s hope that he has a point to prove with them.
If we come back from here without, at least, a point then I’m afraid it has to be getting near to the end of this current managements tenure.
STOP PRESS: Bailey Hobson, formerly of Alfreton Town, in on loan.
Photo © KHFC
Referee: Mr Greg Rollason. Worcester
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| Previous games against Eastleigh FC | |||||
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| Played: 5Won: 1Drew: 0Lost: 4 | |||||
| Date | H/A | Comp: | Score | Goals | Att: (away) |
| 09-02-2016 | H | National Premier | 3 – 2 | Maxwell, White, Gnahoua | 1335 (53) |
| 19-12-2015 | A | National Premier | 3 – 1 | Whitfield | 1862 (60) |
| 25-04-2015 | A | National Premier | 2 – 1 | Wright | 4024 (148) |
| 10-03-2015 | H | National Premier | 1 – 3 | OG | 1225 (55) |
| 25-10-2014 | H | FA Cup 4th qual rd | 0 – 1 | 1489 (68) | |