WIMBORNE player-manager Christer Warren highlighted the importance of maintaining their good run ahead of tomorrow's crucial top-flight clash with Brockenhurst at Grigg Lane (3pm).

Last weekend's 2-0 win over Ringwood and a 5-1 win over Horndean in the cup on Tuesday has stretched the title challenger's winning run to 11 games, proving they have hit form at the right time.

"It's massively important to keep the run going," Warren explained. "Totton are going well at the top, so we can't afford any slip-ups."

Warren's outfit lie four points behind Totton in the Sydenhams Premier Division with two games in hand, but VT FC are hot on their heels with both Wimborne and Totton left to play to set up an enthralling title run-in.

But after seeing his side held by Brockenhurst in the league in November, the former Cherries and Southampton player is taking it one match at a time.

Warren said: "They've got a good side. They're well organised and hard to break down, and with a few big boys in the side their set pieces will be a threat.

"We'll need to be at full strength to compete with them, and we need to make sure we apply ourselves well from the start."

Brockenhurst have been on a good run of late themselves, winning five of their last six games including a 4-1 mauling of Christchurch on Tuesday to lift them up to seventh place in the league.

But Warren has singled out Magpies striker Scott Joyce, with 36 goals in 35 games this season, as the man who could unlock the hosts' defence.

The boss said: "He's scored a lot of goals for us this season, and hopefully he can keep that going on Saturday and give us all a boost."

Wimborne: (from) Hutchings, Walker-Harris, Jones, Percival, Harvey, Arnold, McCormick, Warren, Whitcher, Stokoe, Joyce, Sturgess, Blackburn, Vavrecka, Bailey-Pearce, James.