DORCHESTER Town assistant-manager Trevor Senior feels the 3G pitch at Redditch United will suit the Magpies as they search for their first Evo-Stik Southern League Premier away win of the season tomorrow (3pm).

Boss Craig Laird has implemented a passing, possession-based game at the Avenue Stadium and Senior believes the players will have “no excuses” having trained at Thomas Hardye School’s 3G pitch in pre-season.

Senior, who missed Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to King’s Lynn through an arrangement organised before he joined the club, told Echosport: “Redditch have a reasonable side this season and it’s a 3G pitch.

“We have trained on a 3G at Thomas Hardye so all the lads will be used to it, no excuses.

“For some players it will be good, others not so much. The way Craig wants the team to play should suit us on that sort of surface as well.”

Senior is also looking for the Magpies to be more positive going forward and was encouraged when first-team players scored all four goals in Dorchester Reserves’ 4-3 win over Basingstoke Under-21s in midweek.

He said: “After the three points against Basingstoke we were hoping to follow up against King’s Lynn but it didn’t happen.

“I watched the reserves on Tuesday night and Tom Bearwish scored, Jamie Beasley got two and Dom Panesar-Dower got one. That will be a confidence boost.”