Spennymoor manager Jason Ainsley says that his side won’t be settling for a replay when they go to Bromley in the quarter final of the Buildbase FA Trophy on Saturday.

Moors’ season has hit several peaks this season, none more so than in the last round when they won 300 miles away from home at East Thurrock in Essex in midweek in the last round. They’ve also upset the applecart in the league, beating several big names to put themselves neatly in play-off contention.

“It’s another big game in our history again,” said Ainsley. “To reach the last eight of the biggest competition in non-league football is testimony to where we are at the moment. It’s a great fixture. We go there as underdogs, but we’ve been underdogs for 90 per cent of the season in the games we’ve played. That won’t deter us, and we go there full of confidence.

The lads have shown tremendous attitude so far, none more so than in the game at East Thurrock in the last round, and I’m sure that they’ll be the same again today.

“Bromley are scoring goals for fun, they’ve got players who can really hurt us. They’re having a brilliant season. We’ve had them watched, and they sent somebody to watch us, although what he would have made of us when we lost at home to Nuneaton last Saturday I don’t know. Some of our people heard him say that they had nothing to fear, and I don’t blame him for saying that because if we play in the same way at Bromley, we’ll get thumped. But that was only our first defeat since early December.”

Bromley are currently eighth in the National League table just outside the play offs, and are one of the clubs who are hoping that the Football League will change their stance against their 3G pitch if they win promotion. Their 3G pitch seems to be liked by their opponents though, because Bromley have lost five times on it in the league this season “Playing on a 3G pitch is an advantage,” said Ainsley. “Look at Tamworth in the National League, they have a very good home record.

“We train on a 3G pitch every week and we’ve got good technical footballers. We’ve got to get used to it, and give our supporters something to shout about. We don’t intend to come back with our tails between our legs.

“We need our big game players to come to the party, and we need them to turn it on. You would expect Glen Taylor and Andrew Johnson to be amongst the goals, but we’ve got David Foley, Ryan Hall and Mark Anderson who are all capable of scoring, but you tend to find on these occasions that it’s the unsung heroes who come through. I’ll be happy with an own goal and 1-0 and coming home on that coach with a semi-final place. We’re not bothered who scores.

“We have some really experienced players who are used to the big games. We’ve won promotion the hard way in the last two seasons through play offs, we’ve had Vase runs, we’ve had FA cup runs, and this season the players have done well in the big league games against York, Blyth, Darlington – where we’ve come unstuck is when we think the game is going to be easy, and that doesn’t happen in the league we’re in. The players know they’ll be in for a real tough battle on Saturday.

“We’re going down there to attack them, because I’m not the type of manager who will go down there for a draw. It’s not in my mantra. We’ll go there with attacking players and hopefully they’ll perform on the day.”