The Weekend Starts Here! So What's In Store On Saturday?

By Sam Elliott

Non-League Day is a chance for our clubs to really show what they’re about, on and off the pitch.

For one club in particular, they have the opportunity to be the side everyone is talking about on Saturday!

Bottom club Braintree are looking for not only the shock result of the season in the National League, but perhaps in any division anywhere.

With six defeats in seven, the Iron parted company with manager Bradley Quinton last week in the hope of shaking things up. Stand-in Hakan Hayrettin couldn’t have asked for a harder task - away to red-hot Salford City.

The Ammies odds to win will be miniscule having taken 21 points from the last 21 available. They have scored 18 goals in that seven-game winning run.

It’s not only at the Peninsula Stadium where the away team need to produce something very special.

Dover Athletic, with new manager Andy Hessenthaler in charge, head to Harrogate - somewhere he has already been to this season.

He hated every minute! Eastleigh came unstuck 4-0 on a day that they were lucky to escape without total humiliation.

Could we be about to see the biggest crowd of the season so far?

Leyton Orient host Hartlepool United in what is already a massive match - but it’s even more exciting with the fact tickets are just £5.

Both sides got the win they needed last weekend and you can see all Saturday's National League goals here.

Barrow
and Jack Hindle in particular are bang in form, they go to Bromley with eyes on pushing into the top half of the table.

AFC Fylde will be glad to be back at home, they just don’t seem to be themselves away from Mill Farm. But Dave Challinor beware: Maidstone United have won their last two matches on the road.

Wrexham haven’t got a great record at Dagenham, but they may have timed their trip to the East End quite well.

Peter Taylor’s side have lost their way since a mini revival and have lost four games back-to-back.

Luke Garrard knows how he feels. Boreham Wood also have zero points from their last 12 and need to beat Maidenhead, also out of form.

One team who can’t put a foot wrong at the moment are Eastleigh - even if it wasn’t enough to keep their manager from leaving for Dover!

They take on improving Aldershot in an all-Hampshire affair, while Solihull Moors and Ebbsfleet United lock horns.

The live BT Sport game is with two very out-of form sides - neither have won since August.

What will give when FC Halifax play Chesterfield. Tom Denton talks us through facing his old club here.

There are a few sides needing wins and Lee Bradbury’s Havant & Waterlooville are certainly one of those.

But they welcome Gateshead, who have won their last three on the road at Ebbsfleet, Barrow and Chesterfield.

National League fixtures:
AFC Fylde v Maidstone United
Boreham Wood v Maidenhead
Bromley v Barrow
Dagenham v Wrexham
Eastleigh v Aldershot
Harrogate v Dover Athletic
Havant & W v Gateshead
Leyton Orient v Hartlepool
Salford City v Braintree Town
Solihull Moors v Ebbsfleet
FC Halifax Town v Chesterfield (BT Sport)

Where next?

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What's In Store On Saturday In The National League North The National League North returns this week after an FA Cup lay-off as we also look forward to Non-League Day.