Silverware up for grabs to cap Boro’s season
Gosport Borough have the chance to claim some silverware to end the season after missing out on a Southern League Premier South play-off finish.
Boro take on two-divisions lower Wessex League Premier side Moneyfields in the Portsmouth Senior Cup final at Baffins tonight (7:45pm).
Shaun Gale's side brought the curtain down on their league campaign with a 2-1 triumph at Yate Town on Saturday but ended up ninth - falling short of the top-five play-off finish the club had targeted.
Admittedly, the Portsmouth Senior Cup is sure to have been low on Gosport's list of priorities throughout the season.
But Gale says now his troops find themselves in the final they will be going all out to lift some silverware in the club's last act of the 2021-22 season.
The Boro boss said: ‘You want to win; ultimately you want to win it, that's our goal.
‘We're going to be missing two senior players - Mike Carter is away on holiday which was already pre-booked - Matt Casey is not available but he's trying to change that through work. Rory Williams and Elliott Wheeler came off injured (at Yate Town), Ryan Woodford was obviously ill.
‘But I've got some really good under-23s so it could be an opportunity to look at them. We will be young, but it's a competition we want to win.’
Gosport have beaten Hampshire Premier
League Paulsgrove, along with Wessex League pair US Portsmouth and
Petersfield Town to reach the competition's final.
Moneys will be aiming for their fourth PSC victory, having first won the silverware by beating Baffins in 2013.
Gosport have won it the most since the tournament was first held in 1987/88. Borough have lifted the silverware six times, including four in a row between 2003/04 and 2006/07 inclusive.
Like Moneys, Hayling, Horndean and Hawks have all won the trophy three times.