31. Home-grown talent the only option for Bees

Any new recruits that Bracknell Bees sign before the registration deadline on January 31 will not be imports, according to player/coach Claude Dumas.

32. Brian Howard hopes to haunt Liverpool again

Brian Howard is hoping that history will repeat itself tomorrow and he can once again dump Liverpool out of the FA Cup.

33. Dumas: No repeat of Saturday horror show

Claude Dumas described Saturday night’s 11-2 mauling at the hands of Peterborough Phantoms as ‘unacceptable’ and has warned his players against a repeat performance between now and the end of the season.

34. White sets out his plan to drag Finchampstead FC out of trouble

Finchampstead manager Neil White has challenged his players to turn their season around, when they finally get the chance to return to action.

35. Dumas: Bees have turned the corner

Sixteen games into the EPIHL season, Bracknell Bees player/coach Claude Dumas believes his side have finally begun to show their potential.

36. Bracknell RFC overcome Tring RFC ‘banana skin’

Bracknell RFC forwards coach Greg Anstead believes the side showed great maturity in their National 3 London & South East match with Tring.

On a dreadful pitch and facing a powerful headwind, Bracknell produced a defensive masterclass in the first half and then made use of the conditions after the break to pull clear and claim a bonus-point win.

37. Boss Wanklyn proud of his youthful Wokingham & Emmbrook FC side

Wokingham & Emmbrook boss Wayne Wanklyn watched his youngest-ever side fight back from three goals down to move nine points clear at the top of Hellenic Division 1 East at Holyport on Saturday.

38. ‘Bees needed a change,’ says House

Bracknell Bees are beginning to see the benefit of the enforced change the club underwent over the summer, according to forward Danny House.

39. Mellow yellow Bracknell RFC are doing it the clean way

Bracknell RFC forwards coach Greg Anstead insists the team’s exemplary disciplinary record this season has not been a conscious aim, but instead stands to highlight the good standard of their new division.

40. Brendan Rodgers’ loan snub

Brendan Rodgers failed in an attempt to bring in a forward on loan during the international break.