Truro City will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing mid-week defeat as the team travels to west London tomorrow to play newly promoted Hampton and Richmond Borough.

Hampton spent five years in the Conference South from 2007 to 2012, coming agonisingly close to promotion to the Conference National in 2008 and 2009, losing two play-off finals in a row. The club was relegated to the Ryman Premier League in 2012 where they spent four years before winning promotion back to the second tier of non-league football as Champions at the end of last season.

Hampton overlapped with Truro City in the Conference South for just one season (2011-12), but the two matches produced 13 goals. Hampton came out on top, drawing 3-3 at Treyew Road and defeating the White Tigers 4-3 in London.

Manager Alan Dowson has been in charge since September 2014 and signed a new two year contract this summer. His ambitions might be modest (he said last month: “I’ll tell you now, we’ll not get relegated. I’ll sack myself if we do”) but his team has got off to a very strong start with three wins and one defeat in the season’s first four games.

The wins came against Bishop’s Stortford, Easbourne Borough and Margate and the single defeat was at the hands of another promoted club, East Thurrock.

Man of the season so far is striker Jamal Lowe, with four goals in as many games. The pacey 22 year-old local boy, whose career started at Barnet, scored 15 times for Hampton last season after joining the club in November 2015. Second top scorer is full-back Tom Jelley, though both of his goals have come from the penalty spot.

The other man to watch up front is Christian Jolley. The 28 year-old winger arrived at Hampton in the summer and knows Alan Dowson of old. The manager, in charge of Kingstonian at the time, plucked Jolley from obscurity in 2009, and set him on a path which would see him make 84 appearances for AFC Wimbledon and 57 for Newport County. Jolley scored his debut goal for Hampton in their 4-2 win over Margate in mid-week.

In Truro City news, manager Lee Hodges has confirmed that Rory Fallon is fit and will be in tomorrow's squad.