Despite a lightening start to the season, Poole Town are not getting carried away ahead of Saturday's visit to Bath City.
Tom Killick's side travel north for an FA Cup Second Qualifying Round fixture, and the manager insists they are taking nothing for granted.
The club from Dorset lead the Southern Premier League Division, winning nine out of their 10 matches so far this season, but Killick is insisting struggling Bath City of the Conference South are favourites.
Bath City vs Poole Town
The FA Cup
Second Qualifying Round
3pm, Saturday 27 September
Twerton Park, Bath
Winners get £4,500 from FA prize fund
"I think they are favourites as they are in the higher league and have beaten the current leaders away from home," he said.
"They have proven players at this level and higher and we are going into this match as the underdogs."
Killick is right to be wary of Bath as the Somerset club has a great Cup pedigree, having reached the Third Round Proper six times.
Poole boast some interesting former players of their own such as Newcastle head scout Graham Carr, former Wales international Andy Jones and striker Charlie Austin, who is starting to make his name is the top tier of English football with QPR.
However, Killick does not believe that many players within his current team can replicate what the former Swindon and Burnley forward has managed to achieve.
“I think they are favourites as they are in the higher league and have beat the current leaders away from home”
Tom Killick Poole Town manager
And former non-League Player of the Year Killick should know having been charge of the club for ten years.
He added: "Maybe two or three of our younger players can break into the League ranks but in my time as a manager it is an unusual and exceptional case for that to happen.
"I do hope some of our younger players can break into the lower, professional leagues, but to get into the Premier League, it is a really special event."
