Football: Goal machine Stone to miss Dicot clash (From Gazette Series)

Evo-Stick Southern Division One South & West: Yate v Didcot Town preview

8:30am Friday 13th January 2012 in Yate and Sodbury Sport

YATE will be without prolific striker Dave Stone for their home game against Didcot Town tomorrow (3pm).

Stone hit braces in the consecutive 2-0 wins at Mangotsfield and Halesowen Town to help Yate get the New Year off to a great start, but he came down with chicken pox this week.

Edd Vahid (hamstring), Adie Adams (neck and chest) are also ruled out, while Jake Cox (knee) is doubtful.

However, defender Scott Thomas (ankle) should return, along with Hector Mackie, who was unavailable at Halesowen, and Mark Badman and Michael Meaker are expected to recover from flu to play.

Yate won their first point of the season at Didcot, who are struggling in 18th place and without a win in four games.