CHESHAM United manager Colin Lippiatt said he will not get carried away with his side's win over Ryman Premier League favourites Aldershot on Saturday and that survival is the number one priority.

The Generals put in a storming first-half at The Meadow to beat the Shots at the weekend but Lippiatt believes this season could be all about avoiding relegation.

He said: "The first priority for Chesham is to stay in the Ryman Premier. If we finish half way up the table, I'll be delighted."

Chesham play Boreham Wood tomorrow at home in their first league match of the season with virtually a completely new side, with only Delroy Preddie and Kieran Corcoran back from last year's Berks & Bucks Final squad.

As a result, the close season has been very busy for Lippiatt.

He said: "This has been the most demanding pre-season, with only Delroy and Kieran reporting back. I had 30 new players report for training and most of the player's I'd never seen before in my life.

"It is really a brand new squad. It's been very hard work to make sure we try to do the best we can without a big budget."

But the pre-season friendlies has enabled Lippiatt to choose his squad for the season.

He said: "Against Aldershot I was finding out more what the teams selection should be. In terms of fitness, match fitness and changing things around, it's very important. Friendlies are important especially as the squad is virtually brand new. It's a little bit frustrating for players in the friendlies because they want to play but you're assessing and chopping changing the side.

"We've got 18 players but haven't got the strength in depth we really need.

"It's a very young side but some of them, like Steve Sinclair from Watford and Jermaine Hunter from Fulham, have a very good pedigree for the non-league."

And Lippiatt said a good start is necessary for his young squad.

He said: "I think the important thing for us, as a young side, is going to be how we start the season and how we respond when things don't go our way.

"We will have bad days at the office and go through a run of defeats and it will all be about how that affects their confidence.

"When you start, you have to try and win the league and set the stall out to win it. Starting this Saturday, we will do our best to win the league but I'll still be delighted with finishing in the top 12 or top ten."

And Lippiatt wants to play attractive football to draw the people of Chesham in.

He said: "There's a time and place to try and turn the oppposition and play it into gaps but we're looking to try and play passing football.

"We would like to see more people at the games and for those supporters who come and sen us play, I would like them to turn up and really get behind the team and judge us as we go along."

Players in: Grant Cooper, Tom Neill, Marc Leach, Julian Capone, Andr Scarlett, Steve Dogby, Steve Sinclair, Dwain Clarke, Leon White, Mark Nockigi, James Bent, Jermaine Hunter, Steve Miles, Dave Fotheringham.

Players out: Dereck Brown, Lee Kersey, Lee Spiller, Wayne Andrews, Alvin Watts, Marcel Nugent, Mark Boyce, Ernie Cooksey, Jason Soloman, Richard Graham, Tim Cook.