The premiership has become a race in four heading into the final spare weekend for catch-up games.

Edgeworth are fourth on 27 points, seven behind leaders Lambton, but they can potentially lift themselves up the table with victory over Jaffas then a repeat against Lake Macquarie in another catch-up match on Wednesday night. They then meet bottom sides Valentine and Adamstown before finishing against Broadmeadow.

Jaffas have a tougher run home, taking on top-three rivals Broadmeadow and Maitland either side of playing sixth-placed Charlestown Azzurri.

The Eagles have won their past four games to keep their title hopes alive but Bridges said a win on Saturday at Jack McLaughlan Oval was crucial.

"There's a lot of points up for grabs over the next few weeks, but this is a huge week for us," Bridges said.

"It's make or break for us this weekend."

Bridges was part of the coaching staff at Jaffas before joining Edgeworth this season and he scored bragging rights first time around against his former club with a 2-0 win in April.

A month later, the coaching partnership of Shane Pryce and Bobby Naumov took over at Jaffas after the surprise exit of James Pascoe.

Bridges believed the Jaffas had been given "a bit more freedom to express themselves" since and he was wary of a tougher assignment second time around. Jaffas have racked up the best attacking record in the league, with 39 goals in 14 games.

"I've got to be on my guard against the Jaffas," Bridges said.

"Top of the league, Prycey has come in and done a magnificent job.

"He's got them ticking along very well and changed some of the dynamics of the team and how they are playing as well. So it's something for us to think about, especially after the last result, they will be out to get redemption."

Pryce said he and Naumov had "tried to instill in the guys some certain ways we go about a game, certain player tasks, which has probably freed them up to express themselves with their football a bit".

"I think we are a bit more direct and want to play that direct ball in to try and hurt oppositions and score goals," he said.

"I guess we want players in that front third not to have any inhibitions or rules. We've got quality players, creative players in that top third, players who have been around first grade for a long time and you want them to show off now and then."

Pryce said the Jaffas, who are undefeated since a 2-1 loss to Olympic on May 8, had only Luke Remington (ankle) unavailable. Joel Wood (suspension) made his return to the club off the bench last week with a 30-minute stint in the 2-1 victory over Olympic.

Pryce said Remington may return next week, hopefully bringing his squad to full strength for "a frantic run over the next month".

Kick off on Saturday is 2.30pm.

Also on Saturday, the Bears (15 points) host second-placed Maitland (31) at Weston Park from 5pm.

On Sunday, Charlestown (15) welcome Olympic (19) to Lisle Carr Oval to restart their round seven match lost to a lighting failure at halftime. Also Sunday, third-placed Broadmeadow (30) take on last-placed Valentine (3) at Magic Park. Both games start at 2.30pm.

Meanwhile, Northern NSW Football confirmed on Thursday the addition of Cooks Hill to the NPL in 2022, eight days after its board approved recommendations to promote the club.

The Newcastle Herald reported a week ago that Cooks Hill had been promoted to an expanded 11-club competition for next season.

A Herald survey of NPL coaches on Tuesday revealed unanimous support for the move, given it would mean more games each season.

NNSWF said Cooks Hill had exceeded the requirements of a review conducted under the club development rating system, which measures 11 key criteria of off-field performance.

"NNSWF implemented the agreed process adopted by the board following the last application process in 2019 and Cooks Hill United have worked hard over a number of years to build themselves up to the required standard to compete in the NPL NNSW competition," NNSWF chief David Eland said in a statement.

"This is well deserved. We congratulate Cooks Hill United on their inclusion. I'm sure they will be a success."

Cooks Hill United president Matt Helinski said in the statement: "This is really the culmination of a lot of hard work done by a lot of really good volunteers, coaches and players especially over the last five years.

"I hope those people celebrate this as much as the current committee and players will. They've all made a huge contribution and helped make the club what it is today.

"We've obviously worked very hard at this. We're very happy and excited about next year. It's a satisfying feeling knowing that, in accordance with NNSWF's Club Development Rating System, we're now up there with the NPL clubs.

"We were disappointed when we got knocked back with our application [in 2019]. On the park we'd been incredibly successful so it was a real shock. But we did a lot of soul searching and realised that our strength was in our youth and development of these players was where our real interest was.

"We set about developing a great youth development program and developing great coaches to implement it. This aligned with everything Northern [NSW Football] were asking for so when it came around to the Club Development Rating System we naturally scored well.

"We saw it as an opportunity more than anything to improve the club as well as the long-term goal to earn promotion.

"NNSWF didn't want to promote a club to linger at the bottom, both on and off the park. In terms of our application we didn't have to be as good as the lower teams in that division but we had to be up there with the best. NNSWF's confirmation of this is really satisfying."

Cooks Hill United lead Northern League One competition after 17 rounds.

"We've produced a lot of really good players and many have left the club to play against the best opposition at NPL clubs. So for those players that have left to seek out an opportunity elsewhere the message is we're here now and we'd love to have you back," Helinski said.

"I think a real strength of the club is that we have that connection with the community. We have big numbers, more than 1000 members, 92 coaches. That creates a lot of work but at the same time brings a lot of good local people to your club who are enthusiastic to get involved.

"Then those people are able to connect with others from the community through the football club. It creates a nice community around the club. The main driver behind our ambition to move up to NPL was to retain a lot of good enthusiastic players and parents and give them an opportunity to represent their home club against the best players."