WHILE some clubs have a problem raising a team as the tough English football season gets into full flow and takes its toll on players, Farnham Town are facing the opposite problem.

The Combined Counties League Division One promotion hopefuls face undoubtedly their biggest game of the season in just over two weeks when they head to Jersey to take on the runaway Bulls.

And after last Saturday’s league game at Eversley & California was washed out by relentless rain, it’s giving Town boss Luke Turkington something of a headache.

“We had the 16 there (at Eversley) and next week we’ve got others coming back. It’s nearly two weeks to go before the big Jersey match and all of a sudden I’m finding that there’s more players to choose from. We are going to have some difficult choices to make at the end of the month.”

That mouthwatering clash at the Springfield Stadium, home of a Jersey side who have won 14 games out of 14 in the league this season, racking up 55 goals in the process, is not until November 30 and Town have two more important league games coming up between now and then – away against Bagshot on Saturday and a visit from AFC Hayes on November 23 – but it’s hard not to let thoughts wander to such a quirky and engaging fixture.

“The players are looking forward to it,” said Turkington.

“After the first ten or 12 games you start getting to grips with where you are likely to be in the league. Right now we’re second, and if Jersey weren’t in the equation then we would probably be top of the league where we were at this stage last season. It’s in the players’ minds to try to get themselves selected for that game (Jersey). It’s a journey away from home, it’s a plane trip, it’s a stayover. It doesn’t come round all that often so I want them to embrace it and have a good time and hopefully we will pick up the three points along the way.”

Farnham’s bid to make it ten league games unbeaten was scuppered by hours of endless rain before last Saturday’s scheduled clash against basement boys Eversley & California, so all thoughts now turn to this weekend’s game against Bagshot, who groundshare with Premier Division Camberley Town at Krooner Park.

And it’s a venue of great significance to the Town boss, who cut his managerial teeth at Camberley before taking the reins at Sandhurst Town, and he’s hoping his knowledge of the sizeable Krooner slope will prove an advantage to his team.

“I know how to play both halves,” he said. “You have to be wary of the hill. It’s a big pitch with a steep hill and it’s like having two game plans for the match. If you’re playing up the hill you play it one way, if you’re playing down hill you play it another way. I’ll be relaying that to the boys.

“I’m hoping that the players will listen to the instructions. If they do that, I know that they can win the game, but sometimes the players just want to play total football.

“We expect a tough game, we expect them to want to beat us. They are down the bottom so will have to try to pick up points. It is home advantage and they know how to play that pitch, but we’ve got to do our job and if we can do that I’m confident that we will be going home with three points.”

Saturday’s game at Krooner Park against Bagshot kicks off at 3pm.