STUART Heath says the Magpies must play to their own strengths before worrying about Cirencester’s in tonight’s FA Cup replay at the Corinium Stadium (7.45pm).

Defender Chris Dillon is again set to miss out with a groin problem but first-team coach Heath insists Dorchester face the Centurions with “real confidence”.

The sides could not be separated at the end of 90 minutes on Saturday, with Charlie Griffin cancelling out Jake Smeeton’s opener for Mark Jermyn’s men.

And both teams now know that they will face a trip to Petersfield Town, conquerors of Weymouth, in the second qualifying round next weekend.

Looking at tonight’s tie, Heath said: “We’ve got to make sure we play our game, better than we did on Saturday.

“Cirencester have got their strengths but we have to play to ours if we want to go through.

“We’ll play our game first and foremost and then try and nullify Cirencester’s strengths.

“We’re going to look to be solid defensively but also pose a real attacking threat.

“We went there earlier this season without being defensively solid, but if can get our game going we’ll have a great chance.”

He added: “It was always going to be a tough one against Cirencester but we’re still in it and we’ll go there with real confidence.

“Hopefully we will get through to the next round because it’s a decent draw.

“We feel we can go to Petersfield and win, and that will give us the opportunity to go on a good run.”

Commenting on Dillon's injury, Heath said: “Groin injuries are notoriously difficult to assess in terms of timescale.

“I think the replay will come too soon for him."