After the disappointment of Wednesday’s late postponement, the big games keep coming for Darlaston Town, tomorrow they visit inform Atherstone Town who have risen from the bottom of the table up to being on the verge of the play-offs. just two points behind Darlaston in seventh place.

Atherstone started the season in poor form, causing the club to part ways with long serving player Jamie Hood. It would been appointed manager during the summer. The Adders Committee appointed the previous Coalville Town and Heather St John manager Jimmy Grey who resigned after a month in charge. Since Atherstone secured the services of ex-players, Mitchell Thompson as manager along with his team of Alex Naughton, and Nathan Haynes, who all left Nuneaton Griff to take up the reigns at Atherstone the young management team have secured 25 points out of a possible 30 An outstanding run of form that has seen one loss and two draws in 10 games. Their player recruitment has been crucial bringing players back to the club that had recently left including Lewis Collins, Gabe Webster, Ryan Quinn just to name a few along with several other players with experience of playing at higher levels of non-league football including Jamie Spires who is on loan from Alvechurch.

The Adders last six games have seen the five wins and suffer a single loss at Highgate United. The cornerstone of Atherstone’s success has been their tight defence, in their last six league games only 4 goals have been conceded and two of them were in their only loss to Highgate. In recent weeks they have beaten Shifnal Town, 1-0 away from home a 4-0 home win over Highgate at Coton Green’s ground followed by another home win this time 1-0 against Whitchurch Alport. A trip to bottom club Bewdley Town produced a boost to their goal difference after a 6-0 win. Tuesday evenings late 3-2 win at Whitchurch Alport could prove to be so important and this after they played the last hour with 10 men, and they came back from being 2-1 down.

Darlaston Town versus Atherstone Town are always really tight nip and tuck games. Darlaston beat Atherstone 2-1 at the Paycare Stadium back in August thanks to a Farid Mikidam Injury time winner, Darlaston also played more than an hour with 10 men due to skipper Alex Foreshaw being sent off which was later rescinded by Birmingham FA.

Darlaston, after the disappointment of not playing against Highgate on Wednesday following a late postponement will be going into the game fully prepared after training twice this week. There maybe some late fitness tests due to some players carrying knocks and injuries so selection may be somewhat interesting for Manager, Dean, Gill and his management team.

The match is being played at Atherstone Towns Sheepy Road ground, the full address is

Atherstone Town FC
The GAM Civils Stadium
Sheepy Road,
ATHERSTONE
CV9 3AD

Kick off 3 pm

Admission: Adults £8, Concessions £5 U16’s £2

As manager, Dean Gill issued a rallying call for supporters on Wednesday the same will apply for tomorrow’s huge game. A big crowd is expected because of the importance of the fixture to both clubs, and we would hope as many Darlaston Town supporters travel down the M6 and along the M42 as possible to support the lads