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Gary Boswell talks us through this midweek's Non-League betting with Worcester, Havaant & Waterlooville, Burscough and Torquay all good things

Last week's change of emphasis from value-seeking tipster to football results predictor paid dividends with five correct calls out of five which adds further fuel to my professional punter pal's argument that I waste time looking around for wrong prices. The only thing to concentrate on is getting the result right! His assertion is that in any game when you are unsure, simply don't bet and whenever I've had a week like that, I find it difficult to argue.

This midweek's fare is pretty similar. There look to be four fairly clear cut home bankers starting on Monday evening with Worcester City's home game against Vauxhall Motors.City have been one of the season's mediocres and the departure of Andy Preece hasn't really had any great significance - good or bad. The deciding factors in this are the simple class one and the Motors' dreadful form on the road that has seen them avoid defeat just four times all season.The opposite is true of Havant and Waterlooville at home in Blue Square South. Just four games at fortress Westleigh this season that haven't ended in victory for the Hawks' FA Cup heroes. They look a shoo-in against Dorchester whose current form is woeful.

There's a banker in the North on Tuesday night as Burscough play host to the basement boys from Leigh RMI. The Linnets have been in tremendous form in 2008 since being able to field a fully fit eleven and earned a deserved win at Rockingham Road on Saturday - a result to renew the jitters into the Boz's Blue Square North portfolio which I thought Kettering had got wrapped up!

The fourth home banker is in the Blue Square Premier where Torquay get the chance to close the deficit on Aldershot with one of their two games in hand at home to Altrincham. The January transfer window signings have done the business for Paul Buckle. In particular, the loan signings of Kaif Mohammed from Swindon - four goals in the last two games - and goalkeeper Michael Poke from Southampton. Poke kept four league clean sheets before his sudden recall by new Saints manager Nigel Pearson. The Gulls have had to field Rice between the sticks again in the last two games (two concedes) and there is reputedly frantic activity in the Torquay boardroom to try and secure the return of Poke both for this game and the crucial showdown with Aldershot that takes place next Monday. It will matter for that game but I don't expect Rice's presence to be a problem against Alty on Tuesday night.

Whatever the Robins may be able to fashion through the wiles of Colin Little are more than likely to be matched by goals from the Gulls who are looking particularly menacing up front again. Mohammed has been joined by the livewire Roscoe D'Sane which has refreshed a Torquay attack that was starting to look a little frayed at the edges. Their head to head with Aldershot is likely to dominate the rest of season run in.

So that's the four 'certs'. If I was looking for a value call, I'd contemplate Stafford away at Histon where the price could be as big as [6.5]. Rangers managed two wins and a draw under the caretaker management of Neil Grayson and now comes the reign of Steve 'The Bully' Bull who is charged with keeping their Premier status. Hard to be confident about this as a prediction though with opponents Histon themselves back to winning ways. The Stutes are reportedly having trouble getting ball boys who are concentrating sufficiently on the game but as that is the only problem down in Cambridgeshire at the moment, maybe a draw is the best that Bully can hope for.

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Level stake BACKS on WORCESTER & HAVANT on Monday night and BURSCOUGH & TORQUAY on Tuesday