Boss Andy Sinton has set AFC Telford United’s sights on FA Trophy glory – insisting they cannot afford to pick and choose their priorities.

The Bucks defeated Nuneaton Town 2-0 yesterday afternoon to earn their place in today’s second round draw.

And the competition –which Telford have won three times – looks wide open after a number of the biggest clubs in non-League football were knocked out at the first hurdle.

Wrexham and Fleetwood, the top two in the Blue Square Bet Premier, were the two most high-profile casualties on a weekend packed with shocks.

“It’s an open competition because a few of them have been knocked out as a result of the sides they have put out,” said Sinton.

“I went to watch one of them (Wrexham) on Saturday and, to be honest, it was pretty much a waste of time because the team we play on Boxing Day (in the league) will be nothing like the side I saw.

“They’ve probably got their eyes on bigger things and if I was in their situation I might think the same.

“But we’re not that type of side – I want to go as far as we can in this competition, I want to win it.

“Someone has got to win it so why can’t it be us?”

Meanwhile, Sinton also moved to explain the absence of defender Stuart Whitehead from yesterday’s squad – admitting the birth of his new son Maxen last Thursday was behind the omission.

“He hasn’t had a great deal of sleep and he’s been backward and forward to the hospital so we decided against including him yesterday,” he said.

“I’m fully supportive of Stu – I’m a family man myself and if there was an issue then that is where he needed to be.

“I could have forced him to come but his mind wouldn’t have been on it and we wouldn’t have got anything from that.”

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