It’s Play Off Tuesday!

Felixstowe and Walton United could have done little more in their quest to win the Pitching In Isthmian North title. The Seasiders ended the campaign with ninety seven points, the same as champions Maldon & Tiptree, and scored ninety goals, and yet goal difference cost them first place and cast them into the Play Offs. Tonight they welcome fifth place Redbridge, the Motormen twenty six points further back- but in good form nonetheless.

The hosts are looking for a fifth successive win- and fifth successive clean sheet. They are also ten matches unbeaten. The visitors are seven matches unbeaten, and have won their last three. 

The last time the sides met, as recently as March 21st, Felixstowe won two-nil- and indeed they’ve won the last six meetings between the sides; six meetings which have seen the Motormen score only once. All that said, Redbridge have been fantastic on the road this season, forty two of their seventy one points coming on their travels. 

Tickets are available HERE. 

Waltham Abbey are the hosts for Stanway Rovers as third faces fourth. The Abbotts have had a superb season, particularly potent in front of goal with eighty eight goals scored- but finished only three points ahead of their visitors. When the sides met at Capershotts in December the Abbotts won by the only goal, but Rovers got their revenge with a two-one win in January.

Abbey have lost only twice at home this season- but Rovers won’t mind the trip too much, as they’ve picked up more points on the road than at home. 

Rovers are hoping for a fourth win in a row and kept a clean sheet in those three victories, whilst their hosts have only one defeat from seven but ended the regular campaign with two draws. 

There will be no parking available- details here. 

Pitching In Isthmian South East saw the sides in second and fourth separated by only two points as the season came to a close on Saturday- indeed their places could easily have changed in the closing stages. 

Second place Croydon Athletic welcome fifth place Sittingbourne. The Rams have stumbled over the line, and come into this one without a win in four, three of those matches ending all square. The travelling Brickies won their final two matches at a canter, but have also had the occasional blip of late. 

The sides have met three times this season. Athletic won the most recent of those encounters, a three-one win in South London at the end of February, whilst the Brickies have been the hosts twice, winning a seven goal thriller by the odd goal in November and losing two-one in the Cup way back in August.

Tickets are on sale HERE.

Jersey Bulls have been in magnificent form, and that allowed them to overhaul AFC Whyteleafe on the last Saturday of the campaign and claim home advantage in the semi-Final meeting between the two. Bulls come into this one having won seven matches in a row, taken twenty eight points from the last thirty available- and having conceded only three goals in those ten matches, none at all in the last five. Leafe, in contrast, have only one win from their last five.

The sides were, of course, promoted from Combined Counties Premier together last season- and both adapted magnificently to life at Step Four. Matches between the two have brought very few goals- just one in their two matches this season, a win for Bulls in the Channel Islands in October, and only two in their two meetings last season, both ending in one-nil away wins. 

Tickets are selling rather quickly, and we’d suggest that if you plan to attend you’d be best booking one in advance- HERE.