Neil Jenkins may have extended his loan deal at Kingstonian, but Sutton United boss Paul Doswell has revealed he is desperate to play for his home town club.

The 29-year-old agreed a new two month deal at Kingsmeadow this week having helped inspire manager Alan Dowson's men to a three-match winning run in the Ryman Premier League.

Injury has prevented the former Eastleigh defender from playing a full part in pre-season and the subsequent form of veteran player-coach Paul Telfer and Alan Bray has seen him slip down the Gander Green Lane pecking order.

But Doswell has insisted Jenkins has a future with his Blue Square South play-off chasers, but admits injury may have to work in his favour for a change to get another look in.

"I signed Jenks as my first choice full back thinking Alan Bray would not get himself fit. But he did while Neil didn't get any sort of pre-season because of the injuries he picked up," he said.

"Paul Telfer has come in for Alan recently and has pretty much made himself undroppable, so there is competition for places - which is the way it should be.

"Jenks needs to get himself match fit - games at Ks will do that - and then he is probably waiting for injuries to get his chance to go straight back into the team.

"I understand he is desperate to play for Sutton. It has been a dream of his to play for the club, because he grew up with it on his doorstep, his brother played for Sutton and his dad supports the club."

Doswell has picked up the Blue Square South manager of the month for September, while striker Leroy Griffiths was voted the FA Cup player of the round for his four-goal exploits in the 5-1 over Dulwich Hamlet.

United squeezed out a 0-0 draw at Weston-Super-Mare on Saturday ahead of this week's FA Cup third qualifying round trip to Bognor Regis Town.

And the manager admitted he cannot contemplate a cup upset with his in-form team flying high on the back of a seven-match unbeaten league run.

"The draw at Weston pleased me as much as the 4-1 home win over Maidenhead to be honest, because they don't drop many points at home," he added.

"We could have had a penalty and three points, but we are still in a good place at the moment.

"We could not be taking this cup run anymore seriously. We've had Dulwich watched twice and now Bognor twice.

"I can't make the players any more aware of how important this game is to us. We cannot underestimate anyone - we can't afford to."