POOLE Town boss Tom Killick believes there could be benefits for his club to play some matches on Friday nights.

Five Sydenhams Wessex League fixtures have already been staged on the opening evening of the weekend this season.

Each game - at Hamble (twice), Totton and Eling, Fawley and Moneyfields - has pulled in bumper gates compared to attendances for Saturday 3pm kick-offs.

Wessex fixture secretary Malcolm Watts is a big fan of Friday night games and feels "we should play them when the clubs want to play them".

League chairman Alf Peckham added: "I believe it's already in our rulebook that our clubs can play two Friday night home games a season - after that they have to go to the league's management committee."

Killick, whose club's average home gate is 163, the second highest in the league, said: "I think there is something in playing Friday night games in terms of increasing the gates.

"You will get a lot of people who are watching or involved with other clubs coming to your game, like managers, players and spectators.

"For example, if we play on a Friday night some people who watch Wimborne regularly might come and watch us, and still go to their game the following day.

"I think, in principle, it's a good idea in terms of increasing revenue.

"It's something we would consider, but it would have to be an irregular thing, something to be looked at once in a while."

Killick added: "It's probably a good thing and there are other benefits to playing on Friday as well.

"My players and myself have then got the weekend to go and watch another game or do other things, although I think it would have to be a once in a while thing rather than regular."

Premier Division leaders Poole host Hamworthy United tonight (7.30pm) in the Dorset Senior Cup second round.

Hammers boss Phil Simkin said: "We haven't played them this season and it's a rehearsal for our FA Vase second round tie at the County Ground on November 17.

"It will be a very hard game because they are top of the league and an extremely good side.

"But we will go there and give it our best shot."

Jack Swann faces a late fitness test on a hamstring injury, while Steve Gilbert and Matt Grimason are added to the Hamworthy squad that drew 0-0 at home to Alresford in the league on Saturday.

Poole could be without Trefor Smith, Dan Cann, Aaron Skelton, Karim Benssaouda, Stuart Brown and Sean Hogan through injury or unavailability.

Poole: (from) Frampton, Whitley, Skelton, I Richardson, Funnell, Cann, Bowden, Sturgess, S Richardson, T Smith, Culliford, S Smith, Fairbrother, Yelland, Brown, Reeves.

Hamworthy: (from) Peters, Hubbard, Dovell, Horlock, Walker, Dean, Legg, R Middleton, Jackson, Connett, Byerley, Mutch, Williams, Swann, Byrne, Gilbert, Grimason.