The New Saints boss Craig Harrison targets unbeaten season after clinching Cymru Premier title
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Craig Harrison is in his second spell in charge of The New Saints
The New Saints manager Craig Harrison says they are aiming to remain unbeaten and win a quadruple after securing the Cymru Premier title for a 16th time.
TNS beat Cardiff Met 4-0 at Park Hall to seal a third straight league title, their second trophy of the season, having won the Nathaniel MG Cup.
They now face a Challenge Cup final against Airdrieonians followed by a Welsh Cup semi-final against Cardiff Met six days later on 30 March.
"We need to go again," said Harrison.
"It's fantastic that we've actually clinched the Cymru Premier because that's really our bread and butter, but now we'll move on and we'll go again.
"We'd also like to go all season unbeaten from a domestic point of view, we've got six games to do it so it's something that we'd love to do."
The last time TNS did not win a game of football this season - including extra-time and penalties - was way back on 13 September, when they drew 0-0 with Bala Town.
TNS also drew 2-2 with Barry Town on 26 August, but have otherwise won every domestic game of football.
"Obviously we've had a big lead for a few weeks now and wanted to get over the line as soon as possible as we've got some more big games coming up," said Harrison.
"It's not often that you win a title and you've got bigger games coming up. We've obviously got the Challenge Cup and semi-final of the Welsh Cup so it's really, really exciting.
"The key always has been and always will be good professionals, good people, hard work and competition for places.
"The lads know that if they're not at it every day they could be out of the team for five or six weeks and missing big games."
Having won their first three Welsh titles (in 2000, 2005 and 2006) as Total Network Solutions, since becoming The New Saints, Oswestry-based TNS have now won the league 13 times in 18 years - to further extend their own record number of title wins.