Witham Town take part in their last remaining cup competition tonight against Brightlingsea Regent but assistant manager Brad King insists the league is more important.
Town have enjoyed good cup runs this year but King admits that, even though he doesn't want 'to disrespect the cup,' they are playing catch up with their league fixtures.
"These cup runs are great. The FA Cup, The FA Trophy and the League Cup but we've got a small squad and we now find ourselves with five league games behind some sides. We need to make sure the league is our priority," said King.
"Tonight gives a chances for those players who haven't had as many minutes or game time that they need or deserve so it gives the others opportunities to come in and put a performance in that makes us think 'well actually should they be starting on a Saturday.
"Whatever happens today, as long as we can give a good account of ourselves, then I'm not going to be too upset. I don't want to disrespect the Cup but we're such a small squad and we're already five league games behind.
"This is great for giving players opportunities but all I'm concerned about is getting our league games chalked. We're five games behind and we haven't even hit the poor weather yet so it's quite concerning really."
With a small squad, the cup competitions have also given Witham the chance to carry on their good form but this time around King hopes to see the players who will be involved make the most of it still.
"They are all first team players, they're just either not in the squad or they've been on the bench. There will be a few players that want to keep up their match fitness and a couple of players still need that so it will still be a very strong side out."
"They're all first team players because we always want to progress as far as we can in the cup, it's just the league's our priority."
