It's Gosport on Saturday!

Greensnet Editor
Fri 23 Aug 2019, 10:00

Tomorrow afternoon sees the first team make the journey down to the Hampshire coast to God's own port, Gosport in their second away Southern League South Premier Division fixture of the campaign.

Gosport, like ourselves, had to wait until their final league game of the season to secure their status at Step 3 back in April under the stewardship of Craig McAllister and Matt Tubbs. That management team departed in the summer and was replaced by Lee Molyneaux who has set about rebuilding the squad in an attempt to keep Borough clear of the drop zone this time around.

Last season Borough thoroughly enjoyed their meetings with the Greens beating them 3-1 at Privett Park on a thoroughly filthy November afternoon and then making light of playing with 10 men for more than an hour at SJP and thumping the soporific home side 4-0 in February - a game which was memorable for the astonishing first time volley from George Barker from inside his own half that flew over Danny Boness and into the net.

Borough enjoyed a fabulous start to the season beating pre-season favourites Taunton Town 3-0 at home on the opening day, however they have lost their next two matches on the road 1-0 at Salisbury and by the same scoreline at Merthyr Town last week to currently sit 13th in the table, one place above the Greens.

For Jimmy Gray's men, they'll be looking to extend their unbeaten start to the season and also break their winning duck at the same time before heading back to SJP for Monday afternoon's bank holiday game with Chesham United.