Great Wakering Rovers hope to have some of their walking wounded back in action tomorrow when they bid to step-up their top three ambitions in the Ryman Second Division with a home derby win over Tilbury.

Alan Hull's men saw their hopes of finishing in the top two evaporate with defeat at a Horsham side who took over the leadership on Tuesday night.

They were again well below full strength for that match and picked up three more knocks with Gary Howard, Darren Twidell and Dan Trenkel being the sufferers.

Hull will be hoping that a number of doubtful players come through a pre-match roll call before naming his line-up.

The Dockers suffered their first defeat since Bill McMeekin took over the managerial hot-seat when they lost 1-0 to high-flying Arlesey last weekend.

Before that Dockers, who parted company with new Bowers boss Tony Cross last month, had previously won four on the trot.

However, their record at Burroughs Park is not good and their mixture of youth and experience will rely heavily on the scoring talents of 21-goal star Jean-Marie Okita if they're going to change that.

Published Friday, March 15, 2002