Lewis Hogg believes Bath City's double December demolition of play-off final opponents Woking could give them the psychological edge when the teams clash for a place on Blue Square Premier on Sunday (2pm).

The midfielder, whose free-kick sealed City's 3-1 pre-Christmas win over the Cards at the Kingfield Stadium, was delighted to learn he and his team-mates would not face the long trip to Dover Athletic this week following their triumph at Chelmsford.

Woking will travel West on the back of a tremendous run of form but their last trip to Twerton Park five months ago saw them thrashed 5-0 as City banished the pain of their FA Cup defeat at the hands of Forest Green Rovers in stunning style.

Hogg said: "We've got a hell of a game coming up, but we're easily capable of beating Woking if we're on our game.

"Psychologically, they probably would rather have played Chelmsford than us.

"It is a big game and it will take one more big effort to get there.

"It would have taken the gloss off of it to go to Dover for the final so it is good to be at home.

"We wanted to play in front of our own fans and get the job done there."

City were roared into the final by around 300 travelling supporters at Chelmsford and Hogg has called for more of the same this weekend, when the attendance could even exceed the 3,325 that flocked to Twerton Park for the cup clash with Forest Green.

"There should be a crowd there to match a game of that stature," said Hogg.

"Hopefully we can advertise it well and get a big crowd there because it makes a big difference.

"The noise our fans made at Chelmsford was brilliant and the lads all really appreciate it."

Hogg, who made 74 appearances for Bristol Rovers before playing in the Conference with Barnet, is eager to move back up the football ladder after plying his trade outside non-league's top tier for the past seven years.

He added: "The lads deserve it. We've got closer and closer every year and lads like Jim (Rollo) and (Matt) Coupe, who have been at Bath for a long time, deserve to be back on that stage."

Hogg and fellow midfielder Adam Connolly were the main winners at City's player of the year awards evening on Sunday.

The dynamic duo shared the supporters' award after polling the same number of fans' votes; Connolly was named players' player and Hogg the manager's player of the season.

Connolly also picked up the goal of the season prize for his thumping 25-yarder against Bishop's Stortford in January.

Darren Edwards received the golden boot and Jim Rollo collected the chairman's award from Geoff Todd after reaching 400 games for the club.

Several of the shirts the team wore during November's FA Cup victory at Grimsby Town were auctioned off at the end of the evening, raising nearly £1,000.