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And it's back to league action after both sides' escapades in the FA Trophy on the weekend. Barnet beat Dover 3-2 at Underhill whereas the Daggers took 210 minutes to overcome Crawley, having drawn 0-0 at the Glyn Hopkin Stadium, they met again the following Tuesday with the score being 1-1 over 90 minutes but they managed to scrape an extra time win. Their reward is a visit from Arlesey whereas Barnet face a trip to Forest Green Rovers for their efforts.

Last time out in the league, Dagenham produced a huge shock having beaten Shrewsbury 5-0 at home. Barnet took a hugely valuable three points on their travels at Halifax. League positions would still tell you that a Barnet victory would be on the cards but when teams can pull results out of the nowhere as they did against the Shrews, anything can happen.

Barnet will be looking to improve on the recent lacklustre period over Christmas and hopefully the second half performance against Dover will kick our season back into shape. The win over Halifax was huge, you could see how much it meant to both players and the 127 fans that travelled up to The Shay. Of course, you cannot expect brilliant performances every game, but the Christmas period did raise some concerns within the supporters and hopefully, a win over Daggers should put worries at rest.

Previous trips to Dagenham haven't yielded much happiness (5-1, 5-2 defeats and a cancelled match on New years having arrived at the ground) and we all hope that they can't bring their excellent home form against us to Underhill on Saturday!

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Ground
The Glynn Hopkin Stadium
Capacity
6,000
Manager
Garry Hill
Chairman

2001/2002 Position
2nd
2002/2003 Position
5th
 

Players left, fans drifted away and there is a certain amount of discontentment around The Glyn Hopkin Stadium right now. The Garry Hill racism allegations came and went, just one of a number of problems that Dagenham have faced. Perhaps a Trophy run will provide them with a useful tonic.

Their top scorer is Mark Bentley who has a tally of six (two coming against ourselves) and he is closely followed by recent signing from Northwood, Chris Moore and Mark Stein, who departed soon after the race allegations against Garry Hill. Considering how long ago that was, it tells you something about the Daggers' season.

Attendances have also dipped drastically too thanks to their problems on the pitch. Although that said, the average is at a respectable level of 1,469 even with recent attendances dropping to below 1,200. Hopefully though, a sizeable crowd will travel from East London on Saturday to swell the Underhill crowd.

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Oh dear, the fair weather fans won't be here for the, erm, fair weather

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6°C-44°F

Barnet 3-1 Dagenham & Redbridge, Att:: 1,935

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