Blues on the road to Richmond

From the archive, first published Thursday 8th Mar 2007.

BILLERICAY Town continue their Ryman Premier promotion bid this weekend with a trip to fellow hopefuls Hampton and Richmond Borough.

The New Lodge side, currently fourth, are six points behind new leaders AFC Wimbledon who took over top spot on Tuesday when they beat Carshalton 2-0 at home.

This may, of course, be an entirely false position as the Wombles are awaiting their appeal against an 18-point deduction for fielding an ineligible player earlier in the campaign.

Coach bookings for the Hampton trip can be made by e-mailing btfctravel@aol.com or texting 07745 977757 or via the fans' forum, www.fansfocus.com/billericay.

Cost is £10 for adults and £6 for under-16s.

The coach will leave New Lodge at 12.30pm and depart from Hampton at 5.15pm.

Billericay will hope to have leading scorer Joe Flack fit to return following his hand operation which forced him out of last weekend's game.

But they will have to reshuffle their defence as Darren Blewitt starts a three-match ban after being sent off at Wimbledon a fortnight ago.

He's also out of the home game with bottom club Slough on Saturday week and the visit to lowly Walton and Hersham the following Tuesday.

Next Thursday Town will field a squad line-up for their Essex Thames-side Trophy quarter-final at Essex Senior League Barking.