GRAYS moved to the edge of the Isthmian North play-off zone thanks to Wednesday evening's match at Haringey, which was decided in a roller-coaster first half.
ROCKS made just the one team change from the side which had performed so well in the FA Trophy in midweek, with teenage midfielder Sam Carter, on dual-reg from Concord Rangers coming in for his first Rocks start in place of Tommy Barton,
THE two sides who have made a great start to the new campaign, sharing the lead of the Isthmian Premier, were evenly matched throughout in a contest where goalmouth action was scarce.
GRAYS produced an emphatic outcome to Saturday's Isthmian North derby at Parkside to continue their unbeaten start to the season, even though the result perhaps flattered the Blues.
MILLERS secured three points in North-West London after coming back from a goal down to secure a second away win of the Isthmian Premier campaign, and third win out of four.
ROCKS boss Marc Harrison was the first to acknowledge his side got lucky with a disputed penalty in Saturday's FA Cup preliminary round tie at the seaside and hoped that the change in fortune - following their own sense of injustice in a midweek league defeat by Hashtag United - could help spark an improvement.
AFTER a thrilling start to life in the Isthmian Premier Division, with impressive victories against Hastings and Billericay, Aveley were brought down to earth with a bump at Parkside on Saturday (20 august) as Bognor blasted them for six in an emphatic victory that took the Rocks to the top of the table.
BRYAN Ifeanyi's opportunist second half goal, his second in successive matches, ensured a second win at the start of Aveley's Isthmian League Premier Division campaign on Monday evening – a win all the sweeter in a local derby watched by a crowd of 746.
GRAYS Athletic got the league campaign up and running with an away point at Coggeshall on Saturday. The game failed to reach the heights of the thermometer as temperatures soared into the mid 30s under cloudless skies