The Reds pocketed £2,250 for getting through the preliminary and first qualifying rounds last season but will earn £3,000 if giving a repeat performance this autumn.

Meanwhile Long Buckby collected only £500 (now to become £750) for a single cup victory. The new increases will cover the next four-year period.

Both Woodford and Ford Sports (now Daventry United) have previously gone as far as the third qualifying round which will be rewarded with £7,500 in payments this season as opposed to £5,000 previously.

In the season just gone Woodford’s SL Midlands Division rivals Chasetown netted £62,000 (up to £79,000 this season) before losing to eventual FA Cup finalists Cardiff in the third round proper.

For the big boys like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool there is the potential of picking up £2 million as opposed to £1 million for winning the cup. Even beaten semi-finalists will earn £500,000 apiece!

Meanwhile the Bucks’ who reached the last 16 of the FA Vase last season, have needed only to dot the i’s and cross the t’s during the close season after runners-up to Stotfold in the UCL title race last winter.

The first team squad has signed up again en masse with ex-Cobblers stalwart Darren Harmon having second thoughts about taking early retirement at the age of 34.

On Saturday the Bucks’ were 4-2 winners of their first pre-season friendly at Earls Barton before moving onto the Royal Oak to take on Daventry United this weekend.

Mark Hewitt and Matt Green have been recruited from Wellingborough Town but the number one signing brings in Famie Gilsenan who won a UCL Cup winners’ medal with Desborough Town last season.

The Bucks’ have lacked an effective side runner on the left flank since Richard Wesley moved to Daventry Town and Gilsenan has been brought in by shrewd manager Glenn Botterill to plug the gap.