St George’s Colts need some outside help if they are to be successful in their First Division promotion push this season.

Six teams are still in the hunt for the top two spots, but only joint leaders Somerset Eagles and Flanagan’s Onions have their fates in their own hands.

The others — St George’s, BAA Wanderers, St David’s Warriors and Young Men’s Social Club — will all need somebody to take points off the top two sides in order to keep the promotion race interesting going into the final few games of the season.

St George’s beat BAA last weekend to avenge their Shield semi-final defeat to BAA at PHC Field back in December. Now they will travel to PHC Field to play Social Club, with both teams looking for a victory and also hoping BAA can take points off leaders Somerset Eagles tonight at Goose Gosling Field.

Eagles will be without Nathan Rego, their 16-goal striker who is the league’s top scorer while Social Club have a striker equally dangerous and even more experienced in Clay Darrell, whose 15 goals have kept them in the promotion hunt this season.

“At this point in the season every game is important regardless who you play,” Neil Paynter, the St George’s manager, said.

“We’re taking it one game at a time, not looking too far ahead of ourselves.”

Social Club handed St George’s their first league loss of the season, 2-0 at Wellington Oval in October, after the East Enders beat Eagles 4-1 and then later thrashed St David’s 6-0.

St George’s still have to play St David’s but otherwise have probably the easier run-in of the top six teams as they look to gain promotion back to the top flight after last season’s relegation on the last day of the season.

“For us promotion was not our main focus this season, more about team cohesiveness and unity,” Paynter said.

“We felt that if we came together as a team and played to our potential that everything would fall into place,” Paynter said. “And if promotion was there for us to take then we would take advantage of it, but it isn’t our main priority.

“We’re looking to create a solid foundation so that when we do eventually move back into the Premier Division that we can sustain ourselves. I don’t look at it [relegation] as a negative, I look at it as a positive, to regroup, refocus and then move in a positive direction. Hopefully this [rebuilding] will benefit us for years to come.”

Presently tied with BAA for third place and just a point ahead of Social Club, Paynter acknowledges the importance of tomorrow’s match. “It is a big match, they beat us last time in St George’s and we’re taking this match serious just like any other match,” he stressed.

“We just want to do our job and hope everything else falls in our favour. We need to do our job first so that we can be in charge of our destiny.”

St George’s also have to play X-Roads and Ireland Island Rangers before ending their campaign against Paget Lions, while the other contenders face tougher matches.

Eagles face a tricky schedule as they meet Social Club, St David’s, Onions and Wolves in their final four matches.

After Paget tomorrow, Onions have a tough schedule of matches against BAA, X-Roads, Eagles and St David’s in their last four games.