IT'S another big day for us on Saturday when we travel to Hampton and Richmond Borough in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup.

It is a close one to call. They will be pleased with the draw they have got, and we will be saying our away form is something that enables us to go there with confidence.

It will be decided on who turns up in the best nick and who does the best job on the day.

We have picked up a bit of information on them and they are a decent side. They have beaten Aldershot this season and beat Merthyr Tydfil on their own ground in the last round. They have a fair bit of pace but there are a couple of things we think we can get from them.

We will try and plan and organise as best we can and get players in the best nick to do the job. Hopefully we will have a clean bill of health.

We are unbeaten in five and who knows what might happen in the cup. It is one to go there and look forward to, with possibly a big prize at the end of it.

But it is no good looking ahead to the first round. You have to deal with the job that is immediately in front of you.

Four points from our last two games will hopefully put us in the right frame of mind for the cup game.

The win over Tamworth was our best home performance for a long time, probably since the Bath game.

Games against Tamworth always seem to have a fair slice of controversy and Saturday was no exception. What pleased me as much as anything was the fact that we stood up to the physical side and intimidation during the game.

The game was a tough one and we won it with an excellent goal from Mark Owen, and the victory could have been more convincing in the end.

The referee has set his stall out straight away by booking someone in the first few seconds, and continued to go about his business by brandishing cards -- consequently we had Paul Carty sent off for two bookable offences.

Personally, I would like to see a move to a situation where a player can pick up two yellow cards in a game without it adding up to a red, but still counting as two towards the tally in the totting-up procedure.

On Monday I was quite impressed by Merthyr -- but we got a better result than we did down there against a more complete, all-round side than they were in the first meeting.

We were a bit fortunate to come out of the game with a point, but we probably deserved that for staying in there and sticking to the job.

We had to change the side three times -- once before the game and twice during it -- but it gave young Danny Scheppel an opportunity as substitute.

When he did come on he gave a busy individual performance and could have carved his name in glory if he had taken that late chance.

Mike Wyatt's strike was a goal to win any game and, with regard to their penalty, speaking to them afterwards they were mystified but grateful for the decision.

Only the referee, supported by his assessor in the stand, thought there was a decision to be made there. There was nothing from their players or the dug-out.

City boss John Barton was talking to reporter TONY MOORE.