Woking provide the opponents on Saturday as Boreham Wood look to advance in the FA Trophy first round.

This will be the Cards’ second visit to Hertfordshire this season but the first time the sides have met in non-league’s premier cup competition since the 2005/06 semi-final.

The Surrey outfit ran out winners 3-0 on aggregate, following up a 1-0 victory at Meadow Park with a 2-0 win at Kingfield.

Back then there were three divisions between the two sides. Ten seasons on both are members of the National League with Woking 11th after 24 games – six points shy of the play-off places.

Beaten 1-0 on the opening day of the season by National League new-boys Tranmere Rovers, the Cards then won four on the spin to rise to second. However, that run was halted with a 1-1 draw against Boreham Wood.

Since then their form has been indifferent, dropping as low as 17th before a run of three league wins from their last four.

Those inconsistencies saw boss Garry Hill make his entire squad available for loan.

The 57-year-old, who has previously managed Rushden and Diamonds, Dagenham & Redbridge and St Albans City, has already had to do without Scott Rendell and Ismail Yakubu due to season ending injuries.

Striker Rendell, in particular, was a significant loss. The 29-year-old forward has 41 goals in just 71 starts for the club since joining on a free transfer from Luton Town in September 2013.

He top-scored last season with 24 in 41 appearances in all competitions but will not play again this season after rupturing his knee ligaments just 40 minutes into the season’s curtain opener.

Former Barnet and Newport County centre-back Yakubu lasted slightly longer but was struck down by a similar injury in the match against Wood at Kingfield.

Midfielder John Goddard has stepped up to the plate in front of goal in Rendell’s absence and has 11 in 24 league starts to his name whilst Colchester United loanee Dan Holman has grabbed 12 in 22.

The forward has experience in the National League previously with Dover Athletic, Aldershot Town and Wrexham. He joined Colchester last summer after impressing with Braintree Town where he rattled in 24 in 55 league starts.

Whilst Woking’s home from is the ninth best in the league, away from home it is a different story.

The Cards have struggled and with only two wins from their last six away trips, they are the eighth-worst side in the league on current form.