Friday, March 14, 2008

Penney Won't Focus On Bulls

Darlington boss Dave Penney is refusing to focus on what is beginning to look like a straight fight between the Bulls and Quakers for the third automatic spot.

Speaking to BBC Radio Tees, he said: "We know what games we've got left, five at home, five away starting with Grimsby on Saturday. There's a lot of games before we play Hereford and we want to make sure we pick up points before then.

"I don't hype anything up. We just get on with it week to week. We aren't saying we're going to do this, we aren't saying we're going to do that. We just try and pick points up as we can. We'll see where that brings us at the end of the season and hopefully we'll go straight up, if not then via the play-offs."

The Bulls will be looking for a better outcome than the last time the two sides were battling it out for promotion. 12 years ago, in Graham Turner's first season in charge, the fifth place Quakers beat the sixth place Bulls in the play-off semi-final - winning all four games between the two sides during the season.