Eastleigh have switched their midweek night from Wednesday to tonight this week to avoid clashing with Arsenal's titanic Champions' League clash with Juventus.

The Spitfires' gates have tumbled to around the 350 mark this season and last Wednesday only 287 watched the Hampshire Senior Cup semi-final against Farnborough Town

"We're competing with European football all the time," said concerned manager Paul Doswell.

"Next season I'm very keen to look into the idea of playing Friday night or Sunday games.

"We've got to do something different because the footballing public don't want to come out."

Eastleigh - home to Weston-super-Mare tonight (7.45) - are ninth, but Doswell said: "A win tonight and one at Dorchester on Saturday could put us right up there. We can't go up, but we want to see how high we can finish."

Defender Chris Collins (dead leg) and striker Andy Forbes (twisted ankle) should be okay to play, but Martin Thomas has a tight calf and Stuart Douglas faces another week out with knee trouble.

Eastleigh have rearranged Saturday's postponed home game against Cambridge City for next Tuesday night and will play the Russell Cotes Cup final against Gosport Borough towards the end of the month.

*Havant & Waterlooville have dropped out of the Conference South play-off zone after being hit with a three-point deduction and an undisclosed fine over the Tony Taggart affair.

Originally the Conference ruled that Hawks should replay January's 2-1 win over Weymouth because they had broken a written agreement not to play midfielder Taggart against his old club.

Havant appealed to the FA who ruled that the case should be reheard by a different Conference panel.

But, depressingly for Ian Baird's men, they were yesterday hit with a stiffer punishment of three docked points - with no right of appeal, dropping them to eighth in the table.

Gary Calder, chief executive of leaders Weymouth, said: "We're glad the issue's over with and that justice has been done.

"We lodged the complaint to make a point and now we're just going to get on with the final five games."