Three of the area’s semi-professional clubs are in knockout action on Saturday as the FA Vase reaches the second qualifying round stage.

Two of them will be disappointed, having drawn sides from their own league, but LIVERSEDGE have home advantage against a side who play their football a step lower in the pyramid system.

Sedge face AFC Emley at Clayborn and the hosts will be in good spirits after a home win last Saturday ended a three-match losing streak.

THACKLEY travel to North Yorkshire to take on Pickering Town, with the clubs yet to meet in the Baris Northern Counties East League this season.

A guide may be that the Dennyboys are fourth in the Premier Division while their hosts are third bottom, although Pickering have played fewer games than Vince Brockie’s men.

Form team ECCLESHILL UNITED may be brimming with confidence but they have a tough tie.

They must travel to Rossington Main, who outclassed them in a NCE League Division One clash at the end of last month to win 3-0.

The Eagles are now a very different proposition, having won all five of their league games since that watershed, and will travel with genuine belief that they can avenge that last result.

The rest of the local non-league clubs face rearranged league games.

ALBION SPORTS, who won 6-1 at Dinnington Town on Tuesday, travel to NCE League Division One leaders and big-spending title favourites Worksop Parramore.

Kulwinder Sandhu’s men may have had a big victory last time out but this weekend’s hosts trumped them as they won their last league game 7-1 and have progressed in the League Cup since then.

BRIGHOUSE TOWN’S FA Vase ambitions were curtailed by a 4-1 home defeat in the first qualifying round, so they make the journey to Maltby Main in the NCE League Premier Division.

SILSDEN are also out of the Vase and have only won two of their 12 games in all competitions this term.

They have home advantage on Saturday but while they are fourth bottom in North West Counties Premier Division, visitors Ramsbottom United are fifth top with three times as many points as the Cobbydalers.