Preview: Simon Grand designs route to Wembley for AFC Telford

Liam Watson's Skrill North promotion contenders will be favourites to advance from the third qualifying round clash against a mid-table side playing two rungs below them in the Evo-Stik First Division South.

But Grand insists there can be no easing off for the home side if they want to keep themselves on course for a Wembley final.

He said: "It's a fantastic competition and it doesn't take too many wins before all of a sudden you have got that Wembley reward at the end.

"It's a competition we could do well in. It is one of those games that is going to be big one for Scarborough and it would be so easy for us to take our foot off the gas and slip up.

"But we can't afford to do that. We need to go out and put in a performance like our last couple."

Victory for Telford would be their third in a row following back-to-back league triumphs against Stalybridge Celtic and Vauxhall Motors.

Both of those wins came at home and they are now unbeaten in their last five league games at the New Bucks Head.

Their last defeat on home soil came in the FA Cup, a 3-1 loss to Skrill North neighbours Hednesford.

That reverse denied Grand and his colleagues the excitement of competing in the competition's later rounds, potentially against League opposition.

But a Wembley final with the Bucks would certainly help to make up for that disappointment.

He said: "People always talk about the magic of the FA Cup, it just can't be beaten, but we are never going to win the FA Cup.

"That's a fact. But the FA Trophy is something that is within our grasp. It is something that, realistically, it's possible for us to go on and do well in. So it is important for us as players, the club and the fans that we do have a good run in it and we enjoy it."

Grand has never played at the home of football but he has sampled the fevered atmosphere of a domestic cup final at a major international stadium.

The 29-year-old centre-back was a second-half substitute in Carlisle's 2-1 Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat to Swansea City in April 2006, which was played in front of more than 40,000 fans at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

And it is an experience he would be very keen to repeat with his current club.

He said: "I have not played at Wembley. I was at Carlisle when we played in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final at the Millennium Stadium.

"When you get big occasions like that and you get to experience the big grounds, the atmosphere around the place, there is nothing like it."

Telford will be able to name a largely unchanged side from that which comfortably saw off Vauxhall Motors although utility man Mat Bailey will be cup-tied.

But they should have defender Chris Lever back in the squad having recovered from an ear infection which saw him miss the Bucks victory over Stalybridge Celtic.

Scarborough will arrive having won six of their last seven games in all competitions.