2nd March 2015

Welcome to the latest Club update.

It wasn't a great week to be a Salts supporter, although at half time last Tuesday you could have been excused for thinking the opposite.

Here we were, 2-0 up and battering the title favourites but from that point, the wheels fell off, we conceded four times to go out of our remaining cup competition and then had Saturday's trip to Molesey postponed, leaving us with a spell of four games in eight days to face in early April.

We could sit around and mope about things or look to take the positives out of Tuesday's match, of which there were many. It would have been far worse to have been battered for the whole match, but we showed in the first half what we are capable of doing when we are in form. All we are struggling for is consistency.

I referred to this last week and you will not find a better example of this than Tuesday night's match. However, whilst disappointing to go out, the players know that we are quite close to being a top six team if we can cut out the mistakes and compete for 90 minutes.

The Molesey game has been rearranged for Wednesday 8th April, which is unfortunate, coming between an Easter Monday trip to Horley Town and the visit to Windsor on the Saturday, but Molesey have very few midweeks left so that's the way it goes when you have a successful season!

This week we face two home matches against teams from opposite ends of the table. However, if anyone believes we will have it easy against Hanworth Villa on Tuesday they can think again. We may have won there convincingly back in September ad they may have spent a large period of the season propping up the table, but they are in a bit of form now, defeated Colliers Wood and Hartley Wintney in recent matches and have an excellent record at Epsom. They won here 4-1 last April and will be looking for more points so we must be careful that the visitors, including former Epsom legend Dale Marvell, have a fruitless journey.

Then on Saturday we host Cove who currently head the table. Like with Hanworth Villa, we have a much better record away from home against this team, but we ran them close in a narrow defeat back in November and although they have won their last five in the League, I expect us to make things very difficult for them.

So why not come and watch our boys take on two in form sides at High Road this week? There's also the opportunity to win a £306 jackpot from the Salts Super Six Predictor Competition. For a £2 entry, you never know...

Come on you Salts!