The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Having seen their last three weekend fixtures wiped out by the weather, Pinchbeck United player/boss Ian Dunn hopes that his side will be able to pick up where they left off.
The Knights, who are 11 points clear at the top of the ChromaSport UCL Division One table, have only played once in the last month.
They’re expecting to finally return to the field at Thrapston Town on Saturday (3pm), with Dunn hoping Pinchbeck – unbeaten since September – will take another step closer to clinching the title.
He said: “Obviously we’ve been inactive over the past few weeks.
“It’s proved hard to get everyone together for training, as the weather has been so terrible.
“It has been frustrating, as we had that momentum of play, win, play, win.
“That’s the big thing you worry about when you see a lot of games called off – will the lads still have that momentum when they’re back? I tend to think that they will, because they don’t want to lose again this season.
“It’s not often as a player that you’re part of a team that goes more than 20 games unbeaten. We’re very proud of that record and don’t want to let it go.
“The biggest problem of the past month is that we’ve missed out on the points we’d have had if we’d won.
“The three games would, in theory, have left us two points off the title – so we’d have been able to win it this weekend.”
Dunn hopes that Saturday’s game at Thrapston is better that the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field reverse.
Pinchbeck won that one 3-0 back in January, but the player/boss recalls the clash being “boring”.
He’s expecting Thrapston to offer more at Chancery Lane, though.
“I think it’ll be a much tougher game,” added the player/boss. “It was a boring match last time.
“But I think they’ll try something different and it’ll be up to us to find a way to win the match.”
The Knights must do without the unavailable defender Jack Smith, while Luke Gardner is hoping to get more lower league minutes under his belt before re-joining the squad.
Pinchbeck are also in midweek action on Wednesday night when they play host to struggling Oakham United at the Sir Halley (7.45pm).
