Last weekend we had a great result at Leyton Orient and we need a repeat of that at Macclesfield.

In our previous league game, against Bradford, we ended up getting too wrapped up in the way they played.

We need to make sure we don’t do that at Macclesfield on Saturday. We have to play our own game, and if we do that we should have a good day.

When you go there and look at them in the tunnel their smallest guy is about 6ft 2in. We watched them a couple of weeks ago against Barnet and the left-winger and left-back are 6ft 4in each.

They use that height well and we have to get our passing game going. We need to get the ball on the floor and try and play through them. If we try and go aerial against them it probably won’t work.

They have their strengths and we have ours. We need to get the ball down, play with a tempo and move the ball quickly.

If they want to slow it down, like Bradford did, then let them, but when we get it we have to speed the tempo up and then hopefully they won’t be able to match us.

I said in last week’s column that I had a feeling we could go to Orient and get a result and we did.

There was no pressure on us there and we really did perform to a high standard. We played a League 1 team off the pitch and fully deserved the victory.

Statistics don’t lie and we had 71% of possession away from home. It just shows what we can achieve in this squad and I think we had four changes from the Bradford game. For us to have made those changes and still have that level of performance was a great credit to the squad.

There was a bit of panic in the last few minutes when they hit the bar and we were thinking ‘not again’; but we fully deserved that luck. We now need to take that performance into the Macclesfield game.

During Sunday’s FA Cup draw you look at the big clubs all of the time and you see Liverpool and Tottenham drawn at home and you think ‘come on, let’s have a decent draw’ but Stoke went under the radar a bit.

Nobody even thought about them but they are a big team and they have our old manager there. There is also some history between the clubs and it’s a fantastic draw.

It’s a game we won’t fear and hopefully we can express ourselves and show what we can do. Who knows what could happen? With Tony Pulis also coming back, it’s going to be great for the fans.

Ade Penock and Mark "Des" O’Connor are also coming back. They are on Pulis’ coaching team and are great lads. They were all here when I signed all of those years ago. Ade still lives in the same area and I bumped into him at Hempstead Valley shopping centre recently. We’ll have to go through the team selection if we meet up again in the cafe!