Marine v Basingstoke Town Preview

Marine vs Basingstoke Town Preview:

Unbeaten in four, Supermarine will as always, head in to this weekend’s tie in positive mood as they look to progress their Isuzu FA Trophy campaign and get a feel of the Dragons ahead of the two sides meeting in a league fixture next Saturday afternoon in Hampshire.

Despite this week’s departures of Ed Williams (to Chippenham Town) and Ben Whitehead (to Cirencester Town) further diminishing Head Coach Stuart Fleetwood’s selection options, Supermarine will be buoyed at the news that our visitors will not be at full strength either.

Following a bizarre midweek home defeat at the hands of Hayes & Yeading which saw no fewer than four of their players picking up injuries and despite three having to attend A&E, thankfully none of the injuries were as serious as first thought.

“It was just a disaster from every facet,” Basingstoke boss Dan Brownlie was left to reflect on following his sides defeat. We started well but then it was just injury after injury after injury and we never recovered from that. Its an unfortunate one because you can’t necessarily legislate for those kinds of injuries and particularly the amount of them but the real undoing of us was the two goals we gifted them in the second half.”

The Hampshire side were hopeful of making some loan signings ahead of the weekend while Stuart Fleetwood also has a signing to announce but defender Toby Raison will not be available for selection due to being cup-tied.

While we find ourselves in the First Round having defeated Tiverton Town 3-1 at the Webbswood Stadium at the Third Qualifying Round stage, our visitors are here courtesy of a 3-0 home win over Southern League Division One Central side Kidlington. The winners of the tie will pocket a cool £3,000, while the defeated side will earn £775.

Current Positions:

We round off a two game homestand as Basingstoke Town visit the Webbswood Stadium on Saturday afternoon as we turn our attention to Isuzu FA Trophy action, kick off 3pm.

Swindon Supermarine - 22nd place - P13-W0-D4-L9 4pts
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Basingstoke Town - 6th place - P16-W6-D3-L7 21Pts

The Teams Leading Goalscorers:

Marine: Levi Irving – 5 goals
Dragons: George Read & Daniel Rowe – 7 goals

Admission Prices:

There are no pre-match tickets on sale for the game, it is pay on the day at the turnstiles, which will be open from 13:15 with either cash or card payments accepted.

• Family 4 - £25 (2 Adults + 2 Youths)
• Adult - £12 (18 to 59-years-old)
• Concessions - £8 (over 60-years-old)
• Youths - £6 (Youths 12 to 17-years-old)
• Children U12s - FREE (U12s must be accompanied by an adult)

Matchday Experience:

We welcome the players, management and family from Wimms11 U13s along with Liden U10s Warriors who are all visiting us for the FA Trophy tie – we hope you all have a great time during your visit and remember that we want you to be as noisy as you can and help cheer the boys through to the next round!

Matchday Programme:

Inside this weekend’s edition, Head Coach Stuart Fleetwood talks about adding to his squad this week, Nick Taylor takes a look over our visitors the last week and Pete Crockett takes his usual fair and even look around the footballing world. There is of course, our usual facts and stats round-ups, photos and Jon Couch rounds up all the news from the Non-League Paper. Pick up your copy from the turnstile – all this and more and it’s still only £2.50!

Half Time Draw:

Don’t forget to visit Martin in the club shop ahead of the game or when he’s going around the stadium to purchase tickets for our 50/50 Draw.

The draw is made and announced during the first half, but we will also have the winning numbers on our social media platforms if you miss out! Just £1 will get you entry and you could take home a cash prize or a runner-up prize!

Other Isuzu FA Trophy ties today:

Harrow Borough vs Beaconsfield Town
Hendon vs Walton & Hersham
Cray Wanderers vs Chesham United
AFC Totton vs Merthyr Town
Westfield vs Hungerford Town
Bognor Regis Town vs Gosport Borough
Poole Town vs Bracknell Town.

Keeping up-to-date on game day:

If you can’t join us at the game, you can follow the action via our official X account @SupermarineFC, where we will have regular updates throughout the match. We’ll also have game day photographs on our Instagram account: @officialswindonsupermarine and there’ll be the usual HT and FINAL updates on Facebook.

Supermarine TV:

Game highlights will be on Supermarine TV Sunday.

Star Man:

Don’t forget to head to the Swindon Supermarine Polls Group on Facebook after the match to vote for your star Marine player of the game. We’ll post the winner on Sunday evening!

Parking & Travel:

Whilst we have FREE car parking for over 300 cars in our car park at the Webbswood Stadium, it does get very busy on matchdays so why not travel by public transport and then save the issue off finding a parking space!

We encourage our spectators to use the Stagecoach Number 7 bus from the town centre bus station, with a route via Greenbridge Retail Park and The Crown Inn at Stratton. It’s a twenty-three-minute bus ride to the last bus stop in the South Marston Industrial Estate (Exel stop).

Just ask the bus driver to stop for you at the bus stop for the Supermarine Sports Complex, and then it’s just a few minutes’ walk from there to the ground. This makes the Webbswood Stadium more accessible to all and has greener credentials, please try it!

Click here for No 7 Bus time table: