Lewes are hoping to avoid a second successive season battling relegation.

The National League resumes on Sunday with Lewes away to Formby and East Grinstead at home to Peterborough Town.

Lewes are currently fourth from bottom but can be overtaken by second-bottom Formby if they lose this weekend.

Skipper Will Champness said: "We are looking to pick up enough points to stay in the league.

"That is the aim for the second half of the season but having said that if we put five or six wins together we could go rocketing through the table.

"Consistency is the key because anybody can beat anybody in this league. There is nobody being beaten 6-0 every week, apart from possibly Blueharts.

"Our first objective is to win a couple of games and having done that we will see if we can put some consistent performances together.

"Traditionally we have always been better as a side after Christmas.

"This is a critical game. We are confident we can dig ourselves out of this. Before Christmas we didn't play too badly but things just didn't work out for us."

Lewes will make the 650-mile round trip with a 14-man squad. Champness and Adrian Bettesworth have recovered from injuries which sidelined them before the break but Carl Wright is not quite ready to return from a hamstring injury. He plays for the second team instead.

Meanwhile, East Grinstead will be without Andy Medcalf who left for Bath Buccaneers over the Christmas period.

The move suits Medcalf who is at university in Bath.

Last weekend, East Grinstead came within 20 seconds of reaching the National Indoor Championships during the qualifying stages at Kidderminster.

Needing a win to progress, they were level at 5-5 with less then half a minute to go against the all-conquering Loughborough Students when former Grinstead player Jason Lee won a penalty corner which was converted as the final hooter sounded.