MANAGER Carl Heeley has called for all connected with Worcester City not to get carried away with the team’s current run of form.

City beat Harrogate Town 2-0 on Saturday, when stand-in keeper Wayne Thomas kept a clean sheet, to climb to ninth in Vanarama Conference North, just three points shy of the play-offs.

They are also bidding to reach the FA Cup first round proper for the first time since 2005 and host Greenwich Borough in the fourth qualifying round on Sunday.

Heeley is happy with the progress being made but isn’t about to get ahead of himself.

He said: “If you’d asked anybody associated with the club that we’d be doing well in the league and into the final qualifying round of the FA Cup with a very winnable home tie, of course we’d have taken that coming towards the end of October.

“But it’s feet on the ground time, we can’t get carried away. As well as we’ve started, we haven’t achieved anything yet.

“You have to be greedy and not settle for just doing OK, you have to want to win things, do well and exceed yourselves.

“That’s what we’re challenging ourselves to do as a group. If they do work hard, the ability and attributes are there to have a successful season.”

City’s latest victory, courtesy of Nick Wright’s fourth goal of the campaign and a first for on-loan Jordan Murphy, was their fourth home league success this season.

Boss Heeley said: “We want to play flowing football and pass it around but at times teams aren’t going to allow you to dictate, they get in your faces and press you high up the pitch and that’s what Harrogate did.

“But, as the game stretches and people start getting tired, space develops and that’s when our good footballers come into their own and start getting on the ball.

“We created quite a few opportunities and, in all fairness, if we had scored another goal or two I don’t think you could have argued.”

Heeley also refuted suggestions that stand-in keeper Thomas was involved in an altercation with Harrogate’s James Walshaw in the tunnel following the final whistle.

“Emotions run high in football and there was nothing there,” he said.

“When you’ve got a lot of people trying to get into two changing rooms, it looks a lot worse than it is but absolutely nothing happened there. Just a bit of pushing and shoving.”