The Acorns head back out on the road on Saturday, as we travel to Sporting Club Inkberrow hoping to get back to winning ways.
This will be the Acorns third straight season heading to Sands Road, having won on both occassions previously and having lost just one of our five meetings.
Ahead of Saturday’s clash with our familiar foes, here is everything you need to know about The Eagles.
THE OPPOSITION- SC INKBERROW
STADIUM- Sands Road
NICKNAME- The Eagles
FOUNDED- 1978
MANAGER- Umit Eminoglu
LEAGUE POSITION- 11th
LAST FIVE- D-L-W-D-W
WHAT’S HAPPENED SO FAR THIS SEASON?
After a difficult start to life in the Southern League Div One South, the Eagles have picked up form losing just one of their last seven games.
Wins over strugglers Willand Rovers and Bashley, either side of a draw with high flyers Exmouth Town, has seen the Eagles climb the table from relegation zone dodgers to mid-table safety.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
The Acorns and the Eagles have met on five occassions over the last three seasons, which has seen the sides promoted together through the Hellenic League Division One, Hellenic Premier to now, the Southern League’s.
It was a battling 3-1 victory for the Acorns at the 4ED Hartpury Stadium, back at the start of the season, following on from a defeat to Inkberrow at the end of the last campaign.
Prior to that, the Acorns had won all three of the opening meetings and will be hoping for a similar outcome on Saturday.
THE RESULTS
28.10.23 – Hartpury University FC 4-0 Sporting Club Inkberrow (Hellenic Division One)
06.01.24 – Sporting Club Inkberrow 1-3 Hartpury University FC (Hellenic Division One)
17.09.24 – Sporting Club Inkberrow 1-3 Hartpury University FC (Hellenic Premier)
12.04.24 – Hartpury University FC 0-1 Sporting Club Inkberrow (Hellenic Premier)
13.09.25 – Hartpury FC 3-1 Sporting Club Inkberrow
PLAYER TO WATCH- JAY HIGGINS-PUGSLEY
Jay Higgins-Pugsley was the loan goalscorer on the Eagles visit to Gloucestershire in September.
In recent times, Higgins-Pugsley has found the net three times in his last five games, including the only goal of the game in his sides win over Willand last weekend.
RECENT RESULTS
15.11.25 – Willand Rovers 0-1 Sporting Club Inkberrow (Southern League Div One South)
08.11.25 – Exmouth Town 2-2 Sporting Club Inkberrow (Southern League Div One South)
04.11.25 – Sporting Club Inkberrow 1-0 Bashley (Southern League Div One South)
01.11.25 – Sporting Club Inkberrow 2-3 Shaftesbury AFC (Southern League Div One South)
28.10.25 – Didcot Town 2-2 Sporting Club Inkberrow (Southern League Div One South)
