Cup run just about football for players
Kidderminster Harriers manager Mark Yates insists the financial rewards for the club from a FA Cup run will not figure in his players minds when they enter the competition on Saturday.
Blue Square North big-spenders Fleetwood come to town in the fourth and final qualifying round, with a place in the first round proper up for grabs to the winner of the tie.
Third in their division, the Lancashire club represent an awkward test, which will have those in charge of the purse strings at Aggborough nervous at missing out on a lucrative tie in the latter stages.
The likes of Norwich and Leeds come in at the next phase, and last year Harriers made it all the way to a third round tie at Championship side Coventry, before bowing out 2-0.
But the money gleaned from that run significantly aided the club in their play-off push for the rest of the season, allowing them to bring in the likes of current captain Chris McPhee.
The rewards are definitely there, but Yates insists when his players cross that white line it simply becomes another football match to win.
He said: "The players don't go out thinking that and it will not be a part of our thinking this week. The people upstairs know what a good cup run can do for our club and that conveys down to me a bit, but that message doesn't get to the players and quite rightly so.
"They have got enough to worry about making sure they perform, that is all they have got on their minds. If we do that, then the rewards can come for the club. I don't want them to worry about the game equalling money, a cup run is about hopefully testing ourselves against better teams as the rounds go on.
"Money is not a factor for the players."
