Farringdon hoping to remain Detached from threat of FC Hartlepool

FC Hartlepool assistant manager Mark Loynes has Farringdon Detached in his sights ahead of this weekend’s meeting of the two sides.

The Grayfields outfit have enjoyed the better of their two previous meetings with Liam Lay’smensofarthisseasonand will be hoping to inflict more pain after Farringdon fell to a heavy defeat at Darlington Town last weekend.

Loynes believes his side “can’t afford to lose” at LeyburnGrove-butisinconfident moodafterimpressingagainst Farringdon so far this season.

He told The Echo: “It’s another big game for us because Farringdonareinsixthplacein the table and eight points better off than us.

“We currently have six games in hand on them and we can’t afford to lose this one.

“We have done well against them already this season and were unlucky to only take a point in the home game when they scored with the last kick of the game.

“We came away from their place with a 4-2 win in the MonkwearmouthCharityCup after a very good performance and one that we can hopefully reproduce on Saturday.”

Farringdon will be without Connor Gales as he serves the first game of a three-match ban following the red card he received last weekend.

Silksworth CW manager JamieColehasurgedhissideto build on last Saturday’s muchneeded home win against WashingtonUnitedwhenthey visit Norton and Stockton Ancients this weekend.

Ahead of the game, he said: “We have a couple of players missing but we still have a strong squad to take to Norton after training on Wednesday night.

“We just hope it’s not anotherfalsestartfromusandwe can try and build on Saturday’s performanceinthewinagainst Washington.”

Cole confirmed he will be without Mason Burton and Dan Thompson for the trip to Teesside.

TheWearsideLeagueweekend gets underway on Friday night when Shildon Reserves travel to the Dave Clark Arena to take on Richmond Town.

Leaders Chester-le-Street UnitedhostDurhamCorinthiansonSaturdayandfellowpromotioncontendersDarlington Town and Gateshead Leam Rangers meet at Eastbourne Sports Complex.

Wolviston are at home to Shotton Colliery, Windscale travel to Annfield Plain and two sides in the bottom four meet at PC Sports Pavilion as West Auckland Tunns entertain Darlington RA.