Phantoms delivered a weekend that left their fans still pondering whether their team are heading for a serious tilt at the play-offs or simply destined to fade to mid-table mediocrity.

Saturday night saw Phantoms travel to title contenders Slough Jets where they came away with an impressive overtime win courtesy of a James Morgan strike in the 61st minute. Still without the injured Tom Carlon, Callum Fowler and Thomas Jeffery as well as suspended head coach Tim Peacock, Phantoms got off to a solid start and kept the in-form Jets at bay until the 29th minute when Blaz Emersic scored a shorthander. Joe Miller tied the game just over a minute later but goals from Ward and Jasik left the home side with a seemingly comfortable lead going into the final period.

Phantoms needed an early strike in the final twenty to get back into the game and James Ferrara delivered the goods to make it a one goal game at 43:59 and, with the momentum shifting Phantoms way, Maris Ziedins tied the game with 46:09 on the clock. Long grabbed the go-ahead goal for Jets on 50:44 but Phantoms were in no mood to roll over and pushed hard for a share of the spoils which eventually came courtesy of a Joe Miller goal on 57:28.

The game rolled into sudden-death overtime and the king of the extra-period winners, James Morgan, was on the spot to send the large travelling contingent of Phantoms fans into raptures. Two goal Joe Miller took the Phantoms man of the match honours.

A large and expectant home crowd turned out Sunday evening for the visit of basement boys Romford Raiders and a fixture that had been billed in the local media as the "Battle Of Bretton" after some unsavoury clashes at Rom Valley Way the previous weekend. However, Raiders didn't ice any of the players scripted as the visiting bad boys and only managed to ice nine skaters and two netminders in total. Despite their short-bench, the Essex side were in no mood to roll over and capitulate and chose instead to put in one of their most impressive performances of their tough season to date.

What the Raiders lacked in numbers, they immediately set about making up for with honest endeavour and a lacklustre Phantoms opening did little to trouble the short-benched visitors. Few within the larger than average Bretton crowd were at all surprised when Matt Turner opened the scoring for Raiders and even a James Knight goal at 9:27 failed to ignite the home side who failed with a Maris Ziedins penalty shot before struggling to the period end at 1-1.

Period two offered little change for Phantoms as Raiders continued to break up the play with relative ease and once again, to frustrate the home fans still further, it was the visitors who showed the extra quality in front of goal with Dallas Constanzo slotting home. James Morgan thundered home a blue-liner to tie the game but the period ended with a Raiders steal in the Phantoms zone leaving Darius Pliskauskas to finish 1on1 for 2-3.

A change in strategy was needed for the final twenty and, at last, a more energetic and aggressive Phantoms showed up to deliver a tempo that the nine man Raiders were never going to live with. Goals rained in from James Ferrara, James Knight, Joe Miller, Brent Gough and James Morgan to take the game away to 7-3 before Phantoms coughed up two late consolation strikes to end the scoring at 7-5 and a scoreline that better reflected the efforts of the visitors. Phantoms man of the match went to James Knight.

The weekend saw the return of long term absentee Julian Smith on D and further good news is hoped for this week as influential youngster Callum Fowler hopes to return to training after missing several weeks with a badly broken jaw picked up earlier in the season at Romford. That will leave power-forward Tom Carlon still a couple of weeks away from a return from his shoulder injury and young D-man Thomas Jeffery targetting a return in time for Phantoms play-off campaign.