CHIPPENHAM Town entertain Stafford Rangers this weekend looking to avenge their defeat in the reverse fixture earlier this season.

The Staffordshire club, who along with Crawley Town, Nuneaton Borough and Weymouth are being considered championship contenders, ran out 2-0 winners at home to the Bluebirds on September 6.

Chippenham had been unbeaten going into the game but a lively Stafford side netted once in each half to take send the Bluebirds home empty handed.

Stafford are sitting on the tail of leaders Crawley in sixth place with 24 points. They have won seven, drawn three, and lost six games this season and are currently only four points behind the front-runners.

They will go into Saturday's clash at Hardenhuish Park on the back of a disappointing 2-1 home defeat against Tiverton Town.

Tiverton, who had never previously taken any points from Marston Road, went into a shock lead 35 seconds into the second half when Paul Milsom and Richard Pears combined to set Jamie Mudge.

Stafford got their deserved equaliser on 72 minutes when Danny Davidson skipped past two tackles and fired home from inside the area. They notched the winner two minutes from time when Mudge outpaced loan defender Lee Barrow and at drilled in at the near post.

Stafford's player-manager is midfielder Phil Robinson who was appointed in the 2002 close season.

He started his playing career at Aston Villa where he made his league debut in the old First Division at Southampton on March 21 1987.

After Villa he played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Notts County, Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Northampton Town, Chesterfield and Stoke City, making 416 league appearances in total.

Robinson then joined Conference side Hereford United where he was player-coach until he took over at Stafford.

Danny Davidson is the league's leading scorer with 13 goals from 16 games for Stafford while striker Craig Wilding, formerly of Chesterfield and York City, has three strikes to his name so far.

The Rangers squad also includes Matt Carragher who joined from Port Vale in August. The defender, who is the brother of Liverpool's Jamie Carragher, made around 200 appearances for Vale since 1997.