WIMBORNE will be hoping to make it third time lucky when they lock horns with Didcot at Cuthbury tomorrow.

The Railwaymen were one of only two teams to record a Southern League West double over the Magpies during the regulation season.

George Reid netted twice in their 4-2 win at Loop Meadow in August, while Adam Learoyd’s early goal derailed Wimborne at Cuthbury in December.

Didcot finished four points behind the Magpies and clinched the final play-off place after registering a hat-trick of wins in the space of five days.

They lost just one of their last nine league games – at Salisbury – with the impressive run climaxing with victories over Larkhall, North Leigh and Paulton.

Felipe Barcelos, who netted in their 3-0 win over Paulton on Saturday, ended with 24 goals to finish third in the leading marksman charts behind Cirencester's Ben Whitehead and Wimborne's Toby Holmes.

Founder members of the Hellenic League in 1953, the south Oxfordshire-based outfit won promotion to the Southern League after winning the Premier Division championship in 2006.

Didcot had been runners-up the previous season when they lifted the FA Vase after beating AFC Sudbury in the final at White Hart Lane.

They tasted defeat at the hands of Oxford City in the Division One South & West play-off semi-final in 2008 before beating AFC Totton in the final 12 months later.

Didcot spent two seasons in the Premier Division before suffering relegation in 2011, their cause not helped by the mid-season demise of Windsor & Eton, a team they had taken six points off.