Looking forward to this one. Two good footballing sides and normally goals at both ends. We should be fresh after no game since Boxing Day & hope we put out a strong XI.
The nature of the FAT these days though is there will be changes and wise with many games coming up in Jan to use the squad. Weaver or Reddin to come in you?d assume & defensively maybe time for one of Cooper or Jones & Eddy Jones overdue a run out too. No idea re Bickerstaff/Nutall/Crankshaw or who knows maybe a mystery attacking loan signing will just pop up on Saturday morning.
I think WRT Barnet the cards are stacked more in our favour. Their ?local derby? on NYD a nice 4 hour round trip down to Eastleigh. Now another long journey to us which I reckon might just be an on the day job, rather then an ovenight as it would be for a league match. They must be prioritising the automatic promotion battle so I envisage they will make a fair few changes. And whilst their away record is decent it?s not a patch on their home form either.
To me it points to a 2-1 home win in front of a predictably low all pay post Christmas crowd of 1,465. As long as the temperature does not drop too far tomorrow night I am very confident we will be on. The pitch considering half the town was flooded looked magnificent in that photo from the FB group yesterday.