Paul Holleran spoke to the media on Thursday night ahead of his side's FA Trophy Third Round Qualifying tie against Redditch United.
"We've had some good moments in the trophy over years gone by and this year we start with another local derby away from home - it's a bit of a fortress for them. He's done a brilliant job, has Matthew Clarke (Redditch United manager) and it looks like after losing one or two in the summer his recruitment has been good again and they've had some really good results so it's going to be hard.
"If you think of the Trophy in recent years, they've made it more localised which I think makes more sense for fans travelling, for interest and for crowds. It's going to be a really tough game but we're looking to bounce back. We've had two games where we could have easily had a lot more out of the games, but we haven't and that's the nature of football sometimes.
"I just think defensively, I've said to a lot of my teams over the years that if you can keep a 0 or a 1 by your name you tend to do alright but we've sadly, at the other end you need 2, 3 or 4 which there hasn't been but when I look back at the games there wasn't a lot wrong. We needed a bit of creativity and ruthlessess in the final third but our high line was right.
"Listen, we've just spent this week's training working on a lot of attacking play but first and foremost it'll need to be an energetic, hard working and gritty performance because if you don't start with those ingredients, especially at Redditch, you'll walk away with nothing."
There is certainly some history in Redditch United vs Leamington fixtures, with the play-off semi final in 2015/16 being contested between the two sides, and the gaffer reminisced on that game.
"It was a good night wasn't it? 8 years ago - it doesn't feel like it! Courtney with the late goal, Gitto with the nod down. Then it went to penalties and Mr Breeden was the hero. It was just a good night, a good advert for football on a tough pitch. Redditch had a great season that year.
"If Saturday is anything like that then we'll be in for a treat and a good afternoon. But listen, we've got to go there and put in a really hard-working away performance and hopfully find that final bit of quality that's been missing in the last few weeks."
Tickets can be purchased on Redditch's ticketing site ahead of this weekend's game with most fans selecting rail as their preferred method of transport - train tickets can be booked up until trains leave.
