THERE were so many things to be pleased about on Saturday not least being able to have a good night's sleep!

Our win at York was a much-needed one under the circumstances. And we had the added bonus of Hereford suffering an unlikely loss to Kidderminster to celebrate as well.

I knew eventually their run would come to an end, but I don't know how Kidderminster beat them because, by all accounts, they were awful against Grays the other night.

Having said that, though, Grays are a very good side and I'm looking forward to them coming to the Interlink Express Stadium on Saturday.

There aren't many certainties in life, but I wouldn't bet against there being a few goals this weekend.

One reason why I like Grays and have a lot of time for them is because they are attack-minded and play a similar type of football to ourselves.

They showed a lot of respect for us when we went down there earlier in the season and are one of the better teams in the Conference on and off the pitch. I hope they make the play-offs. But not at the expense of us getting three points on Saturday.

Grays away was one of the turning points of our season. I believe you have four or five defining moments in a campaign, and winning there when they'd had a lot of publicity and been dubbed the Chelsea of our league was something that gave us a lot of self belief.

At the time I said we didn't play as well as we could, but we got a fantastic result.

Another turning point was at York last weekend.

You have highs and lows in a season games where you have questions asked about your team and we responded in the right manner at Kit Kat Crescent.

We didn't play like champions in the first half, and we told them as much at half-time. There was no mention about Hereford being down to 10 men because we want to make what we do just about us and how we play.

We warned them if we didn't roll our sleeves up and play with a bit of pride and passion and belief in ourselves we would get turned over again.

Thankfully, we improved in the second half and did the business. Gary Roberts has come out of his sticky patch, and big players like Ian Craney and Paul Mullin performed.

Peter Cavanagh also needs recognition because he isn't fully fit and has had an horrendous season on and off the pitch. But he showed his qualities as a captain last Saturday, came through the 90 minutes, was out of position yet still played well.

He epitomises the character we have in the squad.