ESSEX Senior League frontrunners Great Wakering Rovers and Basildon United are looking to continue setting the pace once action resumes tomorrow.

Rovers sit top courtesy of their superior goal difference, with three teams also on 22 points.

They visit 14th-placed Waltham Forest, and manager Iain O’Connell is excited at his team’s prospects.

“We are going well but we want to be top at the end of April,” he said.

“We are on a good run and that is great for confidence but we now need to maintain that.”

Harley Kee and Bradley Nobbs return for Wakering.

Basildon are also on the road, travelling to 13th-placed Stansted - who were walloped 4-0 by Southend Manor this week.

A game in hand on all the other sides at the top, the Bees have started the season impressively, with just one defeat to their name.

And boss Marc Harrison wants more of the same from his squad.

“We are in a good place and I am enjoying looking at the table,” he said. “Takeley lost to FC Romania in the week but Wakering beat FC Romania so it is a very exciting league.

“I hope it continues to be as exciting.”

Southend Manor manager Stuart Marshall will hope the midweek victory at Stansted will be the springboard for his side to push on this term.

After a slow start, Manor will be targeting a more positive run of results, although face a tough ask with second-placed Redbridge the visitors to Southchurch Park tomorrow.

Manor are without Micky Hopkins, Alfie Lindfield and Lee Delf (holiday).

Hullbridge Sports are 18th in the standings and have found the going tough in the opening two months of term.

Visitors FC Romania are likely to pose more questions of the Sports defence tomorrow, and they are missing some key man.

Jimmy Cox and Sam Taylor are absent, with boss Rob Hodgson describing his team as being ‘down to the bare bones’.