Truro City have 'great chance' of promotion

Truro City are aiming to become the first club from Cornwall to play in the National League

Manager John Askey says his Truro City side have a "great chance" of being promoted to the National League.

The Tinners are on a 10-game unbeaten run and are a point behind leaders Worthing with eight games left to play.

Only fourth-placed Dorking Wanderers have a better goal difference than the Cornish side, who are playing back in Truro for the first time in four seasons at their new ground.

"It couldn't be going any better," Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"For our first season back in Truro it's been really good.

"We're just hoping now that we can carry this run on and if we do then we've got a great chance of getting automatic promotion."

Top scorer Tyler Harvey has got 21 goals this season for Truro City

Truro ended last season in 16th place after a fraught end to their campaign - postponements at their the grounds they made their temporary home meant they had to play 13 games in 28 days at the end of last season.

But with experienced boss Askey taking over in the summer after manager Paul Wotton left for rivals Torquay United, Truro have gone from strength to strength.

"At the start of the season I think we were amongst the favourites to go down," said the former Port Vale, Macclesfield Town and York City boss.

"But as the season has gone on we've just got better and better.

"This last 10 games we've just gone on this run and it's got us into second position, just a point behind the leaders and it's all to play for now and it's getting really exciting.

"We've just got to keep it going now," he added.

"Hopefully we're creating a lot of interest in Cornwall. We've got three home games to go and we're just trying to get as many people there to come down and watch us, because obviously the support will be vital and can make a big difference."

John Askey led Macclesfield and York to promotions from the fifth and sixth tiers

But Askey knows any slip-ups could see Truro's title challenge falter.

National League South has one of the closest title races going, with the top six separated by just six points and three points separating first place from fourth.

"There's been six or seven teams all season who look as though they'll be in and around it come the end of the season," he says.

"Compared with the ones who are up there we're probably the smallest as in budget, not the smallest as in crowd.

"It's just great that we're involved and it's anybody's really, anybody from top down to seventh position could potentially win the league."