Hythe boss Tim Dixon has criticised the Ryman League’s decision to schedule two midweek games against Guernsey in the space of 15 days.

Guernsey will visit Reachfields on Tuesday, August 25 before the Cannons make the return journey on Wednesday, September 9.

They’ll have to stay overnight on the Channel Island before catching a Thursday flight back to the UK and that may rule out some Hythe players from making the trip.

Dixon said: "Players can’t afford to lose two days’ money. Some of our lads are construction workers and they get paid in certain ways – if they don’t work, they don’t get paid.

"I expect to go there with a weakened squad because of certain absentees and I’m not happy about it at all.

"Playing them twice in two weeks, that’s ridiculous. Those games will be chalk and cheese. It depends what squad they get out here and what squad we can take there because people work.

"I don’t care when we play Guernsey, whether it’s Saturday or Wednesday, I just want them to put their best side out for a decent game.

"Going there on a Wednesday, I find it hard to take. It’s all alien to us because we’ve never been over there in midweek.

"It’s hard enough getting everyone to turn up on time when you’re playing Tooting & Mitcham on a Wednesday night, never mind chucking in a plane journey and getting a squad together which you know can play in the first place."

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