BASINGSTOKE RFC will bring the curtain down on a London One South campaign to forget when they travel to Dover on Saturday.

’Stoke are already relegated and face a Kent side 10th in the table, needing just one point to make sure they are safe, as the two sides below them, Cobham and Twickenham, face each other in a winner-takes-all clash on the final day of the season.

Dover lost to Basingstoke at Down Grange on the opening day of the season, but so much has happened since then for ’Stoke and their last win, which came in their first outing of 2015, seems a distant memory.

Basingstoke never recovered from being docked 15 points for playing an ineligible player under a false name and the fall-out from this saw most of the first team depart.

The players who have remained have bravely battled on, but the club have been forced to concede their last two away games due to injuries and unavailability, including last weekend’s trip to league leaders Wimbledon.

For the trip to Dover, the players and supporters will travel to Kent on the same coach, which is sure to spur the players on when they take to the field against what, on paper, is one of their easiest games of the last month.

Once again, there will be no pressure on the Basingstoke players and chairman of playing Steve Parker is expecting to field a similar side to the one that took to the field for the final home game against Sutton and Epsom.

Parker said: “Injuries saw us forced to call off the game against Wimbledon.

“I was not going to call up level 12 players to play at level six. It would have been too dangerous against a side as good as them.

“This week, we will go to Dover to face a team who I think we can do well against.

“We are taking some supporters with us, so it should be a good day out and it would be nice to score a few points.”

Parker added: “I see no reason why we cannot do this, but we have to make sure we make our possession in the strike zone count and also get the ball out wide to the likes of Matt Woodhouse and Rilwan Lawal.

“It has been a really tough season, so it would be nice to end it on a high.”