Glamour lacking but Guiseley AFC have an FA Cup tie to 'embrace', says manager Mark Bower

Stevenage might lack the glamour of Birmingham City, Wrexham or Bolton Wanderers, the teams all the minnows would have hoped to draw – Harrogate Town pulled out Hollywood-owned Wrexham at home – the geographical lure of Bradford City, Huddersfield Town, or Yorkshire's other first-round representatives, Barnsley, Rotherham United, Doncaster Rovers, York City or Scarborough Athletic.

But for a Northern Premier League Premier Division side like Guiseley, testing themselves against a mid-table League One team should get the juices flowing.

"I don't think it would have been top of the list – a really tough game and not the most glamorous one," said manager Mark Bower, one of those in Bradford's 1911 Suite when former Sheffield United striker Danny Webber pulled his team's ball out. "It'll be really difficult to get anything from it.

"But it'll be a bit of a change, a different venue, somewhere I've never been before and I'm not sure whether the club have ever been there before so we'll embrace it, go and enjoy it with no pressure.

"Playing a League One side away from home, it is a no-pressure game, one the lads can just go and express themselves in and enjoy it.

"We'll do our homework and do the best we possibly can to prepare. Stranger things have happened, haven’t they?

"If we go and give everything we've got and put our best game forward, we've got a chance.

"They'll be full of very good players so we'll put the best plan we can together."

Even taking part will earn the club £15,000 on top of the FA Cup prize money already banked, and winning will treble it. This is, controversially, the first season without replays in the entire FA Cup proper.

Fifth in their division before Tuesday’s trip to Lancaster City, the main ambition must be promotion.

"FA Cup games are a bit of a bonus and if we can prolong that journey then brilliant but the league is what it's all about,” said Bower.