Our first home league game of 2025 sees visitors from Yorkshire to Roots Hall in the form of FC Halifax Town.
We’re now into the part of the season where we’re playing teams for a second time, although we did that with York before we’d played Ebbsfleet or Braintree once. The return fixture against the Shaymen doesn’t come that long after our 2-0 win there on 30th November when Pepple and Crowther scored our goals. Since that win, we’ve only lost one game (at York), a period that included the two FA Trophy wins as well as the two wins over the Festive period. Halifax went out of the Trophy (against Basford United on penalties) but have had one win (at Aldershot) and creditable draws at home to Sutton and away at Barnet and Altrincham. They haven’t had a game since Boxing Day with their home fixture on New Year’s Day against AFC Fylde being postponed because of a waterlogged pitch, this was then rearranged for last Saturday, with both clubs being out of the Trophy, only for it to be postponed again this time for a frozen pitch!
Both teams have only lost one league game in the last six, but they’ve had more draws than us and scored fewer goals (the 4 we scored on Boxing Day helped!) which puts us higher in the form table. However with both teams having mean defences and less than potent attacks I’m not expecting a 9-goal thriller on Saturday!
We will have to make at least one change to the team that won against Chris Millington’s men 6 weeks ago, as George Moncur started in midfield that day (alongside Morton and Coker), Walker and Crowther also started and it is likely that they will not be fit enough to start with Kendall and Golding the most likely replacements.
So who would you choose to start the first home league game of 2025 and what do you predict the result will be?
We’re now into the part of the season where we’re playing teams for a second time, although we did that with York before we’d played Ebbsfleet or Braintree once. The return fixture against the Shaymen doesn’t come that long after our 2-0 win there on 30th November when Pepple and Crowther scored our goals. Since that win, we’ve only lost one game (at York), a period that included the two FA Trophy wins as well as the two wins over the Festive period. Halifax went out of the Trophy (against Basford United on penalties) but have had one win (at Aldershot) and creditable draws at home to Sutton and away at Barnet and Altrincham. They haven’t had a game since Boxing Day with their home fixture on New Year’s Day against AFC Fylde being postponed because of a waterlogged pitch, this was then rearranged for last Saturday, with both clubs being out of the Trophy, only for it to be postponed again this time for a frozen pitch!
Both teams have only lost one league game in the last six, but they’ve had more draws than us and scored fewer goals (the 4 we scored on Boxing Day helped!) which puts us higher in the form table. However with both teams having mean defences and less than potent attacks I’m not expecting a 9-goal thriller on Saturday!
We will have to make at least one change to the team that won against Chris Millington’s men 6 weeks ago, as George Moncur started in midfield that day (alongside Morton and Coker), Walker and Crowther also started and it is likely that they will not be fit enough to start with Kendall and Golding the most likely replacements.
So who would you choose to start the first home league game of 2025 and what do you predict the result will be?
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