After Saturday’s excellent home win, Hinckley AFC are back on the road for a second visit of the month to Northampton, this time for a league clash at Sileby Rangers.
A home victory at the weekend lifted AFC into sixth place, and was a third in four matches – following on from a League Cup win at Northampton ON Chenecks the previous week. 10 days on from that, Hinckley are back in that town again for a league clash at Sileby Rangers.
And Hinckley will have Zach Tellyn available again following Saturday’s suspension for five yellow cards.
The opposition
After a decent start to September, when they won three in a row and progressed in the FA Vase, Sileby Rangers have gone on a tough run since, and that culminated in a change in management last week. Former Kettering Town stalwart Brett Solkhon has taken over in the dugout, having spent the first part of this season in a playing capacity with Sileby’s local rivals Moulton.
His first game in charge was a 3-1 defeat to Leicester Nirvana on Saturday, when they were a whisker away from ending a run of 10 defeats in 11 games, until Nirvana scored twice in stoppage time. That’s left them third from bottom, two points above the bottom two.
Top scorer Kobi Bivens, who scored against Hinckley in the reverse fixture in August, stepped up to join Wellingborough Town shortly afterwards so their leading marksman still at the club is seven-goal Urijah Gordon-Douglas.
From the dressing room
“We look at it positively. We go to win every game, and that might be with a similar set-up, or we might change it up a bit because some played 90 minutes at the weekend. But we’re now going in with a squad where we can rotate because of the quality that we’ve got. We go there with the aim of getting three points and having a positive November run of fixtures.”
Chris Tullin
Key information
Hinckley will be in our purple away kit for this match.
Sileby Rangers play at the Fernie Fields Sports Ground, Talavera Way, Northampton, NN3 6FR. Supporters should enter the ground by following the signs on Tavalera Way, and there is plenty of free car parking available on site.
Adults: £6
Concessions: £3
