POOLE Town will have their work cut out to bounce back away at Truro City this evening, with boss Tom Killick believing the Cornish side to be amongst the play-off places come the end of the campaign.

Truro are one of just two sides in the division with a perfect record intact after two games, and head into the clash off the back of a 4-0 win over Poole’s Dorset rivals Dorchester.

Dolphins on the other hand enter the clash licking the wounds following a poor 4-2 defeat to Tiverton at home on Saturday.

Keen to return to winning ways, Killick warned that Truro pose a big threat to his team, especially their front three of Dan Sullivan, Tyler Harvey, and Rocky Neal.

Speaking ahead of the Truro match, the BlackGold Stadium stalwart told the Daily Echo: “ I think if you look at Truro, they’re powerful, they're always quite physical and they're very committed.

“They play in a certain way, they're quite direct in the way they play.

“They've got some very good forward players. Got the lad from Taunton, Dan Sullivan, they’ve Rocky Neal and Tyler Harvey up front.

“You look at those three players, it’s one of the strongest front threes in the league, so they're always a good side for me.

“They probably will feel like us, that they significantly underperformed last year. They're one of the few teams that started off with two victories as well.

“Over the last few years, too, they’ve always been strong and I would feel that they'll definitely be in play-off places as a minimum this year.”

Like Poole, Truro City are still awaiting a move to a new ground, with the White Tigers currently groundsharing with Southern League Premier South rivals Plymouth Parkway.

It is the second year of the arrangement, and whilst a midweek trip to Devon is not ideal, Killick stressed that it at least shaved an hour off in comparison to the trek to Cornwall.

“It does make quite a bit of difference,” he restarted.

“I don't know exactly what it is, I'm not amazing on my geography, but I think it saves you pretty much an hour.

“That does make a hell of a lot of difference for a team like us. Even on the way back, just that hour off, it does make quite a big difference.

“We have to make the most of it while we can because I think they got a new stadium, which will be back down in deepest, darkest Cornwall.

“It does help us from that point. Also, the pitch suffers a lot down there, because they got two teams playing on it.

“So to get the opportunity of playing on it quite early on, I think it's positive because when we went down there towards the end of the year, it was horrendous.”