Friday 20 November 2009

ANOTHER THREE POINTS AT SCRALEY ROAD???

HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS V ENFIELD TOWN MATCH PREVIEW

Enfield Town travel to Scraley Road tomorrow to face one of last season's relegated Premier teams in Heybridge Swifts. Wayne Bond's team have played seven home games so far winning 4 and loosing 3 scoring 11 and letting in 8 goals. Their home wins have come against Harlow Town, Thamesmead Town, Cheshunt and on Tuesday night versus Waltham Forest. Their losses were against Leyton (0-1 on 22.8.09), East Thurrock United (0-2) and Great Wakering Rovers (narrowly 2-3). Since they were thrashed 4-1 at Romford they have won at Potters Bar Town (2-0) and won the aforementioned game against Waltham Forest.

The Swifts find themselves in 14th place on 18 points, only 7 behind town in 5th place which shows what a tight league the Ryman North is this season. As stated their net has been breached only 8 times in the 7 home games (6 of those in the three defeats) which shows that Scraley Road is a hard place to score goals to ensure victory. If Swifts had a better record away from home they would be up amongst the play-off places with Town.

An interesting game is in prospect as Heybridge will want to build on their two recent victories and forget about their poor early season form and head in the right direction up the table whereas Town will want to gain another away win after Tuesday's brilliant victory at Thamesmead. The cold end thinks Heybridge are a much better team than there league position and it'll be a tough game for Town but with the firepower of (pick two of three) Wallace, Blackburne and Hope up front another 3 points will be won to add to Town's point's total.

http://www.bwin.com/ make Town slight favourites at 27/20 with the home side 7/5 and the draw being 5/2.

OTHER RYMAN NORTH GAMES

Table toppers Great Wakering Rovers who lost at Lowestoft Town on Tuesday night face a trip to 12th placed Ilford who following their great start to the season have dropped down the league. They have won one game in the last six versus rock bottom Harlow Town. This should be a comfortable win for the Rovers.

2nd placed Thamesmead Town face 2nd bottom Ware at Bayliss Avenue. Ware, despite only winning one in the last six games on Tuesday night against Romford (away) have only lost by one goal to VCD, Tilbury and Wingate&Finchley and drawn games versus Waltham Forest and Heybridge Swifts whereas Thamesmead may still be dazzled from the 0-3 reverse versus Town. In The Mead's previous game to Tuesday's they let three goals in versus Maldon (3-3) so their back four is not on good form. The cold end can see a win for Ware or a draw in this game. Ware are 7/1 with bwin.com with the home-side well odds on at 1/5 with the draw being 5/1.

Lowestoft Town shouldn't have any problems in beating VCD Athletic at Crown Meadow. VCD bring to Suffolk an away record of just one win (@ Potters Bar Town) and a draw at Brentwood Town in seven games scoring just six goals. Anything but a large home victory will be a major shock.

W&F face Brentwood Town at the Harry Abrahams Stadium in what should be a routine victory for David Norman's side. However, following their problems with both chairman and manager leaving on the eve of the season the Essex side have re-grouped and have won four games on the spin. It'll be close but W&F should win.

The cold end wishes all the best to Concord Rangers and Northwood, the Division's sole representatives left in the FA Trophy in their trip to BSS Hampton and Richmond Borough and Northwood's home game versus BSS Baingstoke Town. The Rangers who somewhat surprisingly lost to Redbridge in the league after beating Town in the last round of the Trophy got back to winning ways in the Championship Manager cup recently by beating East Thurrock United (3-0) will fancy their chances of a result at The Beveree Stadium. Alan Devonshire's side were beaten by Bury Town in the competition last year and are not having a great season by their standards, they appear to be suffering from a play-off loosing hangover of sorts finding themselves in 17th place (out of 22) just five points off relegation but only 8 points off the play-off zone. http://www.skybet.com/ make H&R 1/2 favourites with Concord at 5/1 and the draw being 5/2. With the firepower of Taylor and Heale up front Rangers may be worth a speculative punt. Don't forget if the game is a draw it will mean the game at Goldsdown Road on Tuesday will be off as Concord will be involved in the replay.

FULL LIST OF FIXTURES

CHESHUNT V TILBURY
HARLOW TOWN V LEYTON
HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS V ENFIELD TOWN
ILFORD V GREAT WAKERING ROVERS
LOWESTOFT TOWN V VCD ATHLETIC
REDBRIDGE V MALDON TOWN
ROMFORD V POTTERS BAR TOWN
THAMESMEAD TOWN V WARE
WINGATE&FINCHLEY V BRENTWOOD TOWN

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