JASON Mooney is looking forward to his first taste of the FA Cup — against familiar opposition.

The Accrington Stanley goalkeeper was on York City’s books last season but was signed on a free transfer by the Reds in the summer after struggling to get his break with the Minstermen.

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After starting the season with Stanley, and proving to be an influential factor in their rise to fourth, Mooney does not feel he has a point to prove to his former employees.

His only focus is helping his current club progress on his debut in the competition.

“There are only four or five players that I would have known from last year playing so it looks like a new-look team to me, so I’ll just be going into it the same way I would with any game because you don’t know personally a lot of the players,” he said.

“Every week I’m playing against people who don’t know me and I want them to go away thinking I’m a good ‘keeper, so hopefully that can happen again this week.

“But as with anyone if you’re playing against your old club you want to do as well as you can.

“There are a couple of chances coming up for me to show what I can do.”

November is book-ended by games against one of their nearest League Two rivals geographically, with a trip to Bootham Crescent to round off the month.

But, for now, Mooney is up for the Cup.

“Up until now I haven’t had a chance to play in it so I’m looking forward to it and fulfilling a childhood dream,” said the Irishman.

“There’s slightly more at stake because if you don’t do your job you’re out of it. We want to win every game and personally for me it’s against my old club.”

And Mooney is pleased with the way Stanley responded to back-to-back defeats with successive wins against Dagenham and Redbridge, and away to Leyton Orient last weekend.

“We came back fighting the way we always knew we could do.

“Hopefully that was just a little blip in our season and we’re starting to get back to where we were,” said the 26-year-old, who has no qualms about an all-League Two tie.

“I’m fairly confident to be honest,” Mooney added.

“I don’t see there’s fear for any team in this league so I think that’s a good thing for us to try to get into the third round and get a big team.”