Can we make it three in a row? Enfield Town head to Somerset tomorrow buoyed by back to back wins as we take on a Bath City team whose five-match unbeaten run came to an end with a last-ditch midweek defeat at high-flying Weston Super Mare.

Last season’s 1-0 win in the corresponding fixture marked our first away success at Step 2 and a similar result would take us level  on points with the Romans and further away from the drop zone.

Despite our recent brace of victories, seven out of eight away defeats in all competitions tells its own story and both management team and players will be keen to put that right.

Still without Henry Hawkins and Mickey Parcell, Gavin Macpherson has injury doubts about two other key first-teamers battling to make it although he can welcome back Hayden Bullas.

“I wish I had everyone available but even now there are going to be disappointed players who don’t start games,” said Gavin. “Players want to play but they have to understand my reasons sometime. It’s a lot better than asking people to play out of position!”

“The last couple of weeks has certainly given the place a bit of a lift but I can’t express enough that even when we were losing regularly, I never saw players who were accepting their fate. From a group perspective I can’t really ask any more of them in what have been difficult circumstances.”

The league is so tough that as we see every week, anyone can beat anyone on their day.

“No disrespect to Bath but even if we were playing one of the so-called top teams, I’d be saying exactly the same thing,” said Gav. “And that is that we need to hit our levels to get anything at all from the game on Saturday because we all know what Bath can do.”

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