BRAINTREE Town fans may want to make sure they are looking their best when they head to Cressing Road tomorrow.

Put on your finery and comb your hair because the Iron are going to be back on the telly!

There have been plenty of memorable days at Cressing Road that have passed by this country's televisual broadcasters and that's their loss, but Hakan Hayrettin's first game back in charge as Braintree's permanent manager is set to not be one of them.

The BT Sport bandwagon will roll into town for the visit of Solihull Moors and the club are hoping that a big crowd will be enticed along for the earlier 12.30pm kick-off as supporters have a chance to get themselves on screen in front of a potentially global audience.

A live broadcast is a chance for the club to showcase themselves to a wider national audience who may not see them otherwise.

And this weekend may be even more special as there is no Premier League or Championship action to steal the limelight and although Sky will have a League One game going on at lunchtime, Fleetwood against Walsall may not whet the appetite in quite the same way.

It will be nice for a small club like Braintree to be back on screen as it does boost their profile, helps attract sponsors and brings in important revenue.

After their slip back down to the Conference South last year, the Iron had a season away from the exposure of a live broadcast and had to rely on the screening of selected match snippets on the internet, so I'm sure they and the Iron fans will embrace the experience once more now they're back at national level.

Being on television has not always gone smoothly for the Iron though.

Yes there have been some great occasions when they have shone under the glare of the small screen spotlight, like when they went to Grimsby in the first leg of the play-off semi-final in 2016 and Kenny Davis' penalty gave them a 1-0 win against the Mariners.

However, that is tempered against such days as when the ITV bandwagon descended on Cressing Road in 2012 for an FA Cup first round tie against then League One side Tranmere Rovers.

I remember in the lead-up to the game having veteran commentator Clive Tyldesley call me up at home to quiz me about the Braintree players who he would be reporting on during the upcoming action.

It was a bizarre experience listening to a voice that I was so familiar with and had heard so often coming through my television speakers chatting to me about the Iron's FA Cup history and their players' own personal journeys.

I was looking forward to meeting him on the day.

So, queue huge disappointment when a deluge turned the Cressing Road pitch into a pond on the Sunday morning meaning the game had to be postponed and seeing the vast apparatus of an outside broadcast being packed away in the rain without a minute of action being screened.

Looking at the weather forecast, it's looking unlikely that there'll be any repeat of that scenario when Solihull Moors come to town on Saturday.

But there will be a similar circus of technological wizardry at the ground and it's always interesting to peek behind the scenes at how such outside broadcasts are run.

As a print journalist, I love watching how those working in other parts of the media work and it will be interesting to see which presenters and pundits will be at the ground.

However, their presence can also be slightly annoying.

When you're trying to get interviews at the end of the game to meet your own deadlines and demands, the TV guys always get first access to managers and the players they want.

The fact that there are those of us - in the case of the game tomorrow, it's likely to be myself and the BBC Essex radio crew - who are there covering the club week-in week-out and we get relegated to second spot is galling, but we have to bide our time for the all-powerful televisual schedules.

Let's just hope it's worth the wait to speak to Hakan and it's been one of those good Braintree TV days.

Just make sure you brush your hair if you're going to be behind the goal!