Glassboys ready for home return

10:26am Thursday 31st January 2008

STOURBRIDGE FC will make a welcome return to the War Memorial Ground on Saturday nearly a month since last their home league outing.

The Glassboys will host Rushall Olympic in their first league game at Amblecote since they slipped to a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Chesham on January 5.

Manager Gary Hackett, is looking forward to the game following a stop-start January.

He said: "We've had a rather in active January and we are all looking forward to coming back home.

"It should be a good derby encounter against our local rivals Rushall."

Stourbridge will also be looking to bounce back from last weekend's 1-0 defeat away at Woodford, which saw them slip down to fifth in the table.

Hackett added: "It was disappointing to lose but it was always going to be difficult after we conceded an early goal.

"We found it difficult to break them down on a difficult pitch."

Hackett will be able to pick from an unchanged squad for Saturday, with only long term absentness Adam Bastable and Mark Bellingham (knee) and Morgan Brookes (holiday) missing.

The boss also hinted that Rob Taylor would be back in contention after this weekend.

The striker has been on loan at Causeway throughout January.

His spell with the War Memorial Ground tenants has seen them move up to fourth in the Midlands Alliance table.

Their impressive run of form saw them beat Barwell 1-0 at home on Saturday thanks to a Mark Smith header.

United head to Coventry Sphinx on Saturday (3pm kick-off).

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