Rugby Town's fight for survival continues at local rivals Banbury United at Easter Monday as Valley seek to record back-to-back wins since September.

	Date Easter Monday 24th March 2008 Kick-off 3pm Venue Spencer Stadium, Banbury Comp BGB Premier Divsion Match Odds Banbury n/a Draw n/a Rugby n/a Diminuative midfielder Kieran Fitzharris will be hoping to follow up his goalscoring Star Man performance on his debut with a similarly impressive display on Monday Head2Head P W D L F A Home 10 4 2 4 17 12 Away 10 5 3 2 22 15 Total 20 9 5 6 39 27

Rugby's 1-0 triumph over Mangotsfield last weekend lifted the Butlin Road club to 16th in the table, but they are still perilously close to the drop zone and manager Rod Brown has identified the need for at least two wins from the last six games.

With Cheshunt and Cirencester seemingly cut adrift at the bottom, the battle to beat the drop involves probably as many as eight teams for the last two relegation places.

Banbury's late win at Yate Town last Tuesday has surely lifted the Puritans to safety. They currently lie on 47 points and of late have turned into draw specialists.

Five of the last ten have ended as a draw with four of these coming at the Spencer Stadium. The Puritans, in fact, have not tasted victory at home since early January when top scorer Nicky Gordon netted in a 1-0 win over Cirencester.

Former Rugby defender Kieran Sullivan is in his first full season in charge at Banbury and has already recorded a draw against his old club.

A managerless Rugby Town side held a 2-0 lead over 10-man Banbury into the dying minutes after ex-Valley player Ben Milner had deen dismissed but somehow the Puritans found it within themselves to get a draw deep into stoppage time.

There was also late drama in last season's corresponding fixture at the Spencer Stadium when Matt Gearing fired home from long range to hand Rugby a 3-2 win after also coming from 2-0 down.

Rugby have faced Banbury for Easter fixtures in the past two seasons - each ending in 2-1 defeats.

With no game on Saturday, Rod will be able to give his players plenty of time to recover from the Mangotsfield game and he will be hoping to see the return to fitness for midfielders Scott Musgrove and David Staff.

Musgrove has missed the last four games with a leg injury picked up in the Hitchin Town defeat but returned to training this week. Staff also returned to training and could be in contention. He hobbled off during the Hemel game two weeks ago with a hamstring strain but will hope to have recovered.

Meanwhile, striker Akin Aladetoun has completed his loan spell with BGB Midlands side Bedworth United which saw a return of one goal from six games and he could return to the squad.

New signings Rob Oddy and Kieran Fitzharris will be hoping to continue their good form into their first away appearances for Valley.

Rugby Town Squad From: Richard Anstiss, Rob Oddy, Aaron Stringfellow, Stephan Morley, Craig Herbert, Delroy Gordon, Richard Scott, Neil King, Tom Breward, Kieran Fitzharris, Mark Edge, Scott Musgrove, David Staff, David Kolodynski, David Stone, Dave Pearson, Akin Aladetoun.