SCOTT Joyce reckons new strike partner James Stokoe can bring the best out of him and help fire Wimborne Town into the Southern League.

Former Lymington and New Milton striker Stokoe, plucked from Southern League outfit Farnborough Town, and fellow new-boy Mark Jones were unveiled to the Cuthbury faithful before Magpies' 4-1 demolition of Lymington Town on Tuesday night.

And Joyce admits he is relishing the possibility of lining up with Stokoe against strugglers Hayling United at Cuthbury tomorrow (3pm).

"I think James is a really good signing," Joyce told the Echo.

"It's certainly going to boost our striking options and we've got a bit of a fight for places going on now.

"It depends on what Christer (Warren, manager) decides to do tomorrow, but if he starts with me and James up front then that will be the first time I've played with him so we'll have to see how it goes.

"But I think he's a similar kind of player to myself and if we're both playing off the shoulders of defenders, it's going to give them a real nightmare.

"If we can get our movement right then we'll tear defences apart I think, because he's scored 40 goals a season regularly. If I can get 40 as well then that can only be good for Wimborne as we want promotion."

Jones and Stokoe, both former Cherries trainees, are named in Christer Warren's squad for tomorrow's clash, but Sam Percival is out with a dead leg.

Wimborne: (from) Hutchings, Moore, Bailey-Pearce, Warren, Phillipson-Masters, Roast, Jones, James, Vavrecka, Joyce, Walker, Whitcher, G Langrish, Thomas, Stokoe, McCormick.