Hollands & Blair hope a 10-1 victory last time out encourages more fans to Star Meadow - and there’s an extra incentive if you own a dog.

The Southern Counties East Premier Division side are promoting a “Bring Your Dog to Blair Day” for the match against Erith Town this Saturday.

It’s just one of several initiatives the club are trying out in an effort to encourage extra fans to their home games and chairman Paul Piggott has welcomed the idea.

He said: “We have got a couple of new people on the committee helping us to promote the club and trying to get people interested in the club and the social club. They are coming up with ideas and trying to get people into the ground.

“They come up with these quirky ideas and it’s great, they are just trying to generate a bit of interest and as a committee, there are only so many hours in a day you can commit to the football club and we have opened that door a little bit. We have a few more people on the committee now, we’ve let them in and they are working hard.

“You have to be open to ideas, we are all vying for the same paying public, it is just another idea to try and get people interested in coming to the ground, you have to roll with these ideas.

“Some of us are stuck in our ways a bit of how we get people in, you have to move with the times. It is good that we have people interested in the club and coming up with new ideas.”

Blair are putting on evening entertainment, too, after the match from 7pm with a bingo night charity fundraiser in aid of the Laurence Plummer Foundation.

On the field, Blair have added some exciting recent additions and they helped them hit double figures against Welling Town a fortnight ago. A change of management has seen Luke Jessup given the role at least until the end of the season.

With Blair well clear of trouble at the bottom of the table and too far adrift of the top, Piggott believes there is still plenty of incentive for the players and management to impress.

He said: “Luke has managed to get four or five players in the last few weeks, he is trying hard to get others. At this time of year it is hard to get players in, but he is trying.

“It is too easy to get into the last 10 games of the season and just play them out. I would like to think the players want to stay at the club and impress the manager and the manager is still trying to impress us.

“We have said he’s only got it until the end of the season and then we’ll reassess it and he is looking to get the most out of the season in the last few games, which is good.

“It is easy to just jog through to the end of the season when you’re in the position we’re at but I’d like to think there’s an extra edge to our game because everyone wants to impress.”

Blair’s match away to Rusthall last Saturday fell victim to the weather, the home club saying that “unfortunately the weather wins...a referee has deemed our pitch unfit for play”.