Harrogate Railway manager Billy Miller who is hoping to lead his side into the FA Cup second qualifying round
Harrogate Railway and Clitheroe will battle it out at Station View for the second time in five days, but in different circumstances tomorrow.
Both sides will be competing for the £3,000 prize money on offer for the winning side in the FA Cup First Qualifying Round rather than the three Evo Stik Division One North points that Railway won on Monday night.
Nathan Cartman’s sensational last minute strike earned Railway their third win on trot and Billy Miller told Non League Yorkshire: “We will probably approach it differently and we have Jason Mycoe back so it gives the opportunity to change the formation and just present a different problem for Clitheroe.
“Having played them on Monday, it has probably done a bit of a favour because the lads now know Saturday’s game will be difficult.
“They have got to be prepared for the onslaught and let’s give Clitheroe credit because they will get chances.
“Will it be as tight as the game on Monday? I don’t know, it may end up five-all.
“If they put us out of the FA Cup, I’ll probably look back and say ‘well we got the three points’.
“If they don’t then I’ll probably look and think the money is great for the club.
“It’s a difficult one. I spoke to (Lee Ashforth) Ash before the game on Monday and we said which game is more important?
“I think if you take the three points on Monday, it catapulted us up into mid-table and got us away from the teams on one or two points.
“If you go six or seven games on one or two points, you start looking at the fixture list and suddenly you think ‘how are we going to get out of this?
“Now we are out of our little rut and and we can look forward and enjoy Saturday.”
Railway opened the campaign with a bizarre 5-5 draw with Mossley at Station View before losing the next three fixtures which left them bottom of the Division One North table.
Rail rose up from their low ebb to come from behind to win 2-1 at Garforth Town in the dramatic Preliminary Round encounter.
Harrogate then went to Burscough and picked up their first league victory before claiming the win in the first game of the double-header with Clitheroe.
Miller said: “If we had got a result against Mossley, we wouldn’t have gone through that emotional roller coaster in the next three games because we would have had our first three points on the board.
“I’ve always said at this level that your first three points of the season are the three most important points you will get all season.
“It kick starts your season, but if you’re down on one point after four or five games you start looking up and getting that non-belief.
“For me personally, it was a case of making sure the players are fully aware of that and driving them on.
“The result at Garforth kick-started us. The result at Burscough was well-deserved and we’ll take the three points on Monday.”
One player, who was under the cosh was goalkeeper Karl Dean as Rail shipped 14 goals in his first three matches.
Dean, who played under Miller at Liversedge, was rested for the visit of Farsley AFC before returning to the side for the Garforth win.
Harrogate Railway goalkeeper Karl Dean gave a man of the match performance in Monday’s 1-0 win over Clitheroe
Soldier Dean missed the victory at Burscough, but returned to give a man of the match display against Clitheroe and Miller was delighted.
“It was Karl’s best 90 minutes for us, but it was nothing short of what I knew he was capable of,” the Rail boss added.
“He has come under pressure, but he’s just had a week away playing in Cyprus on a training camp.
“Against Clitheroe, from the first time he came and caught a cross we kind of knew it was going to be his night and I’m so pleased for him because he is the nicest lad in the world.
“He’s good to have around as he’s loud, he’s boisterous, but he’s honest and I just hope he retains the consistency.”
Club captain Jason Mycoe returns after missing the win over Clitheroe on Monday night.