Salisbury City face tough Burton match

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Friday, March 13, 2009
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Improving Salisbury City face table-topping Burton Albion, who will be looking to reassure their supporters after crashing to two successive defeats.

However, Albion are still unbeaten at home having won 13 games and drawn four.

Salisbury, who have won three and drawn three of their last six games, face a difficult task if they are to avoid defeat against a side who everyone still expects to be in the Football league next season.

With no injury problems manager Nick Holmes selects from the squad who have been on duty for the last few games.

Salisbury City (from): Bittner, Clohessy, Ruddick, Todd, Brough, Fowler, Herring,Clarke, Ademeno, Tubbs, Griffin, Webb, Sinclair, Sangare, Bass, Dutton.

Forest Green Rovers, who have also put together a good run of results with six draws and one victory in their last seven games, face a hard battle to extend their unbeaten run at Mansfield.

They went close to taking all three points in their drawn game at Wrexham in midweek.

Manager Jim Harvey is without the injured Jerry Gill, who is sidelined for at least four weeks with facial injuries.

Defender John Hardiker has now left the club.

Forest Green Rovers (from): Burton, Robinson, Smith, Lloyd, Ayres, Lawless, Preece, Jones, Stonehouse, Fowler, Platt, Mangan, Brown, Rigoglioso, Ashford, McDonald.

Weymouth have so far endured another horrendous week on and off the pitch.

Alan Lewer will have the unenviable task of picking up his band of young hopefuls and loan signings, whose morale must be at an all-time low ahead of this afternoon's long trip to Altrincham.

Tuesday was a bleak day even by the standards of Weymouth's recent history as first Stephen Beer, the businessman who was expected to donate £300,000 into the ailing club's coffers, suffered a stroke just 30 minutes ahead of a press conference and now the deal looks to have collapsed.

It got worse as a patched-up side sunk to their fifth successive league defeat at home to Salisbury that evening (4-0) and skipper Stephen Reed was sent off for violent conduct.

The midfielder now begins a five-match ban while loaned Peterborough striker Kwesi Appiah (ankle) misses out today.

Both Jordan Vincent and Jake Hyde have injury niggles but Manchester United's Kenny Strickland and Jordan Collins could return.

Weymouth (from): Evans, Vincent, Hoyte, Mawer, Hart, Crook, Coutts, Hyde, Collins, Strickland, Richardson, McKechnie, Dixon, Palmer, Cutler, Tribe.

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