Yeovil Town boss Gary Johnson has no fears his first XI will be able to cope with the npower Championship if they are to earn promotion.
The Glovers have at least secured a play-off spot in League One and with two games remaining have an outside chance of a top two place.
The Huish Park manager has already astounded neutrals by guiding the club to the higher echelons of the division on one of the smallest budgets and is confident of upsetting the odds in the second tier of English football.
Johnson said: "I'm very proud of what this group of players has achieved. They have had to work hard and buy into it early.
"They have had their ups and downs, I have been able to cuddle them, scream in their ear and get a really professional outfit.
"The boys are happy with their lot and what they are doing. If it brings them Championship success that will be fantastic."
On working with the Glovers' budget, Johnson continued: "It makes it more difficult to be successful but nowadays a club has to run its business prudently.
"Those clubs – like this one – have got to have a manager that understands that and get your value for money players. You have got to get them for less than what they will be worth in a year or two.
"I think we have got some players that are easily Championship players and if we get there we will have a dozen players that will be able to perform comfortably."
Although players have come and gone from Huish Park, Johnson hailed the core that has boosted the club's promotion dream.
"That's been great and all the sides that I have had that got promotion have generally used about 20 players," he said.
"We have kept that tidy, neat group and that group that knows it could be playing every week but when a new player comes in they could get a place.
"Everyone knows the roles, they know my philosophies on that and they are comfortable with them because it creates competition to get in the side. If you do the job you stay in."
Jamie McAllister returned from injury to come off the bench at Oldham on Tuesday, whilst Angelo Balanta started having missed Stevenage away through illness.
However, Dominic Blizzard was sick and Dan Burn suspended for the trip to Boundary Park and Johnson said the Glovers would have to weather similar storms between now and the end of the season.
"We knew there were going to be icebergs all the way along for our little ship and we have to keep going around them," he said.
"We had one with Balanta's little belly ache. I have had this before at Bristol City in the Championship play-off final with Jamie McCombe's belly ache and Bradley Orr's smashed face. You have to steer around them and all along there are little icebergs."
