Heading into Christmas Bromley are looking well set for an exciting New Year challenging at the top of Conference South and still in two cups. After a decent second half performance against Leiston in the FA trophy saw us through on Saturday The Ravens have been rewarded with a trip to Torquay United in January, which feels like a real prestige tie given The Gulls Football League heritage.
Ahead of this though there is plenty to play for in the league with the usual busy period over the Yule festivities. On Saturday we entertain St Albans City before travelling to Concord Rangers on Boxing Day and then hosting Wealdstone on Sunday 29th and then Concord on New Years Day. We then have a free Saturday when we were supposed to be travelling down to Salisbury City prior to their unfortunate demise, which should at least give our small squad some breathing space after a crazy glut of games that are not only hard on the players, but also the fans financially and commitment wise.
After the FA Cup exit the squad was trimmed down to a more reasonable size with players either loaned out or moved on where possible. We still have a very capable team and if we can avoid the terrible injury and suspension problems of the previous season we should be up there again come April. Ebbsfleet have probably now become favourites with Jamie Day in charge and incomparable resources it will be interesting to see if Boreham Wood can keep their fantastic run going which sees them six points clear at the time of writing.
Christmas and Easter are the crunch times when it comes to issues at the top and bottom of the table, so let’s hope we can dig in and take the good form into 2015 to keep hope alive
