HOLLAND FC return to Essex and Suffolk Border League action with a trip to Barnston, on Saturday.

The coastal club have not played in the premier division since the opening weekend of the season – August 15 – when they won 3-0 at Hatfield Peverel.

Rob Thorne scored a hat-trick that day and he was on the score-sheet again in last week’s Border League Knockout Cup preliminary round victory at Tollesbury.

Joe Martin (two) and Bruce Poole also netted in the 4-0 success.