Hinckley AFC’s penultimate home game of the regular season sees the visit of a Bilston Town side still in with a mathematical chance of reaching the play-offs themselves.
AFC’s recent winning run has seen them cement a play-off place, and three of the four sides have now locked in their place in the end-of-season promotion battle with Droitwich Spa and Ashby Ivanhoe also now guaranteed to be there.
That leaves two sides battling it out for the final spot and, though it would take a remarkable set of results for Bilston to finish fifth, it is still possible.
Wins over Hinckley and Coton Green in their final two games, coupled with three defeats for OJM Black Country, is realistically the only way Bilston will make it given OJM’s superior goal difference.
Ultimately, a mid-season run of eight defeats in 14 league games may be what costs the Steelmen a top five spot. Before that they were joint-top of the table at the end of September, and then went eight unbeaten in the league recently until losing to Droitwich on Monday to mark impressive starts and ends to the campaign.
The 25-goal Dan Westwood is the league’s fifth-top scorer while, until the Bank Holiday weekend, they had kept three clean sheets in their previous four games.
It will be Hinckley’s final weekend home game of the regular season, and manager Joe Conneely is hoping for a good crowd at Kirkby Road between two of the league’s best-supported sides.
Adults: £6
Concessions: £4
Under 16s: £2 (FREE with HAFC Junior membership card)
