SHAUN Reid is confident Warrington Town can use their FA Cup experience to build for a bigger and better future.

The Yellows were due to face Radcliffe Borough in the league on Tuesday night, but the hosts’ Stainton Park pitch failed a late inspection.

It means Reid’s outfit head into Saturday’s Evo-Stik Northern Premier League First Division North clash at Mossley with six games in hand on some sides.

They return to Cantilever Park to host Bamber Bridge on December 20, before a trip to Reid’s former side Prescot Cables on Boxing Day.

The boss’ focus is on Town’s promotion push, but 49-year-old Reid took time after the second-round defeat to Gateshead to reflect on his tenure at the club.

“The league’s the bread and butter we need,” he said. “We hit the play-offs for the first time in the club’s history last year.

“These past two years have been phenomenal for the football club and we’ll drive on. It gives us a platform, the club a platform. I’ll sit down with my chairman and go through the way forward.

“We’ve got six games in hand on most teams and if we win those games we go to fourth or fifth, I’m a winner and we’ll bounce back.

“As a football manager you just want to improve people, I think I’ve improved Warrington Town and I will continue to do that.”

Chairman Toby Macormac also believes the club have learned a lot from the experience of playing higher-ranked opposition and staging televised fixtures.

“There’s a lot to look forward to and we’ve all learned a lot from the cup run, it’s been a really fantastic time for everyone,” he said.

“It’s been a whirlwind journey, it really has, trying to juggle league games in between the FA Cup run.

“We went through the mill to organise the Exeter home game which was, of course, worth its weight in gold in the end.

“I’ve learned a hell of a lot through organising the Exeter game, just being involved in live TV games, to being involved where your club’s in the media and out there with pretty much everyone.

“It really has been a proper rollercoaster of emotion, but that’s what the FA Cup brings you.”

The memorable cup run delighted Macormac, as did the support Warrington have received throughout.

“You’ll have to spend a lot of time looking through the history books to find the last time we took 850 people to an away game,” he added.

“That’s a proper step in the right direction. We’re hoping this cup run will bring us some fans that will stick with us right through to the play-offs.

“Everyone is going to remember where they were when we went to the second round of the cup. Everyone will remember the trip to Gateshead they had.

“Everyone is going to remember when they were in the crowd at home to Exeter, there are so many things on the cup run that people will remember where they were at certain times.

“So it has left a legacy and it’s down to the club now to repeat that somewhere in the future and take us back to maybe the third round. Who knows?”