‘Take advantage of less mobile Henley’

Brown believes Maids will have legs on rivals

Chris Brown says he’s hoping Maidenhead Men’s 1sts can take advantage of Henley’s ‘less mobile’ players when the sides meet at Altwood School on Saturday.

The Maidenhead captain was disappointed his side wasn’t able to build on their 2-1 win over Richmond two weeks ago, when Saturday’s game at Oxford OBU was postponed due to a frozen and slippery pitch.

But he’s confident they can make it backto-back home wins in 2020 when Henley visit this weekend.

The visitors arrive at Altwood two places above Maids in MBBO Premier Division 2 West, having thumped another of the struggling sides, Woking, 5-1 on Saturday.

However, while Henley have plenty of experience in their ranks, Brown believes that – at least for a number of the squad – their more agile days are behind them.

“They’re a side with lots of experience,” he said.

“They were playing in the league above not too long ago and a lot of the squad were involved in that.

“The spine of their side has played at a high level in the past, so they certainly know how to manage games and be effective.

“At their place we were 3-1 up and should have put the game to bed. But we let them back into it and felt we’d thrown away two points

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Brown added: “I know was off due to a frozen hard to play on. they had a good win at pitch. “But it’s allowed the weekend against “It was frustrating not players to rest any Woking, another side to play but the silver knocks or niggles down at the bottom of lining is it’s given certhey’ve picked up. the table with us, but tain players more time “The game against we’ll be looking to get to shake off ‘knocks and Richmond was fairly three points from the niggles’. physical. There were game. “It was a shame besome robust challenges.”

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Brown and his teamare water-based, or rely move off the bottom of mates received an email on moisture for them to Division 1 and up to on Saturday morning play well, which is why, ninth in the table.