As the weather has been wetter than an early 80s Tory Cabinet meeting, tomorrow’s game at Kingys has been postponed until the rain has stopped.
Here’s Brian with sports news…..
Droitwich Spa v Lydney Town
Hellenic League Premier Division
Saturday 7th February 2026 at 3pm
Those of you who subject themselves to our match previews on a regular basis will know I like to spend time researching the towns from which our opponents hail. This involves hours of sifting through historical documents in dusty old temples of learning and a bit of internet browsing. In anticipation of our early season visit to Lydney I wrote a piece suggesting we could visit
Lydney Castle, as advertised on the Visit Lydney website. Turned out, to my utter dismay, there is no such building.
Regardless, I enjoyed my visit to The Town and found it difficult to understand why their tourist team needed to invent make believe historic attractions. Perhaps they saw how successful Cribbs had been by making innocent visitors think they have a Causeway.
One thing I did learn this time round is that Lydney boasts one of nation’s leading Scrabble teams. I kid you not. The Lydney Twonkers have an impressive record in national competitions. They play their home games at Lydney Library (which I trust is a real building). Keeping all the fans quiet during the closing stages of a close game must involve a lot of contract librarians in high visibility gillets making frantic shushing noises so that Mrs Jones over in general fiction can select a new Maeve Binchy in peace.
There should be even more excitement at Kingys this Saturday though. Lydney have made a few changes of late and look like putting up a good fight for their Premier Division survival. They currently sit in 18th position but will no doubt be looking over their shoulders at Hallen who have games in hand. Notable draws against (at the time) form clubs Slimbridge and Cirencester since Xmas will give them plenty of belief that they can repeat neighbouring Cinderford’s recent result up here at Kingys.
The Saltmen currently sit top of the table but a couple of clubs within the chasing pack have games in hand. It is going to be a competitive final quarter of the season and both clubs will want to take every opportunity to strengthen their positions so we should be in for a good game.
See you there.
Cheers
FTS
FOLLOWING THE SALTMEN 
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