SUPERMARINE continue their pre-season preparations tonight against a Sunday League side that should not be taken lightly, writes CRAIG LYUS.

Selectabook are the inauspicious visitors to Hunts Copse, though closer inspection of their squad list reveals a host of players capable of holding their own at a higher level.

Many of Selectabook's team are dual signed with Screwfix Direct League crisis club Devizes Town, making them quite a force at Sunday League level.

With Devizes recently suspended from football by the Wilts FA pending an August 11 appeal, this evening's game provides the players that double up with Selectabook the chance to build some match fitness ahead of the Screwfix League season providing the Devizes appeal is successful and the club are reinstated.

Devizes player-boss Dave Hopkins is part of the Selectabook squad.

He is confident that the Nursteed Road club whose affiliation was withdrawn due to heavy debt will be back in action after the FA hearing.

Said Hopkins: "At the appeal our chairman (Chris Belcher) will answer questions concerning the way the club has been run off the field.

"The worst case scenario is that we will be suspended from the league and all cups and we might not have a club.

"I don't think it will get to that stage though. This club will continue, even if it's under a different name and different control."

With the Selectabook squad bolstered by Devizes players, their pre-season form has been impressive with wins over Hellenic League Pewsey Vale and Wessex League Bemerton.

Marine should be in confident mood after their 2-0 win over Leyton Orient on Sunday and boss Ray Baverstock a former Devizes manager names the same squad, apart from Stuart Hodson who is unavailable.

n Chippenham boss Tommy Saunders renews his rivalry with former Melksham nemesis Darren Perrin tonight.

Town travel to Screwfix League Paulton, where Perrin is now boss.

The two managers famously came to blows in a Boxing Day derby in the late 90s and there is still little love lost between the pair.

Former Swindon starlet Nathan Edwards could be given a run-out after training with the Bluebirds on Tuesday.

Elsewhere this evening, Highworth host New College Academy and Cirencester visit Bishops Cleeve.