Two home games and an away match this week, each of which is vitally important for the club’s sides as the focus switches emphatically away from cup success and back to the equally significant search for League points.

The First team will welcome Brockworth Albion to Cheltenham Road for their first home League match since December 20^th and will be hoping for three points to firmly cement their position in mid table in Division One of the Northern Senior League.  For their part, Brockworth Albion haven’t played in the League at all since that day just before Christmas, as they were awaiting a break in the weather to contest the GFA Senior Amateur Cup Quarter Final that was eventually played last weekend.  In this game, they lost by the only goal to Shortwood United Reserves last Saturday.  They will have been particularly disappointed to have lost this game as it was at home and this is where all their League points so far this season have been gained, including a 1-0 victory over the First team back in September.  Apart from this, other wins have been gained against Cam Bulldogs and Sharpness, whilst they also picked up three points against their Senior Amateur Cup conquerors, Shortwood, 4-3 in October.   Even so, one of their most disappointing results of the season also came at home, when they lost 1-0 to bottom placed Wotton whilst, on their travels, they have lost each of the five League matches that they have played so it is, not surprisingly, the side’s away form that has left them looking over their shoulders at the bottom of the table.  However, they have a game in hand over the first team, which could be used to overhaul us if they triumph on Saturday so the side will definitely be looking for the level of performance and commitment which made them deserved victors over Broadwell last month.  Simon Delaney returns to the squad after a weeks absence, meaning that he missed the match at Brimscombe & Thrupp, as do both Jon Marchant and Dan Wood, who were both heavily involved in the Junior County Cup heroics at Randwick last weekend.

The Reserves return home and back to earth following their County Cup heroics last weekend with a Cheltenham League Division Two fixture against Cheltenham Saracens III.  Whilst the Reserves were gaining a place in the County Cup Semi Final, they were also losing their position as League Leaders for the first time this season, with Apperley & Tewkesbury Dynamos taking over at the top following an excellent 3-0 away win over Gala Wilton Reserves.  The Reserves do still have a game in hand, though, and will also be hoping to take advantage of the fact that, whilst they take on a side that is just one place off the bottom of the table, the current League Leaders play fourth placed Whaddon United Reserves.  When the Reserve team played Cheltenham Saracens away, back in September, they returned home with an 8-1 victory under their belts that ensured they would enter the break in League competition, for the opening exchanges in the County Cup Competitions, firmly established at the top of the Division.  Jamie Roberts scored six that day and things haven’t really improved very much for this weekend’s visitors since.  They again conceded 8 at home when losing to Gala Wilton in November and have let in 6 goals in defeat three times, against Northleach Town at home and AC Olympia and Northway, both on their travels.  They have won just twice all season, 3-1 away to Brockworth and 3-0 at home to Cheltenham Civil Service, who were the side that inflicted the Reserve Team's first defeat of the season in October.  Last weekend, Saracens gained a point from a 2-2 home draw with Dowty Dynamos.  This week, though, the Reserves squad is strengthened both by the retention of the services of the influential Ben Norman and, also, by the latest return of Jordan Kontarines.  All other injury worries following last weekend's win have disappeared and Guy Tyrell is recalled.