ANDY Procter agrees with manager John Coleman that Accrington Stanley are capable of another promotion.

Many thought the Reds had reached their limit after regaining their Football League status as Conference champions in 2006.

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But having reached the play-off semi-finals in 2011, missing out on a place in the final to Stevenage, Stanley are again well placed for a top 10 finish.

And Procter feels it would be a fitting way to mark their 10th anniversary back in the Football League.

“I think we’ve got a really young, hungry squad. There’s no fear in them,” said the experienced midfielder.

“They’ve gone away to good teams, the likes of Leyton Orient, Cambridge – notoriously difficult places to go – and they’ve won comfortably.

“I think if we can address our home form and make it as good as our away form I think we’d be a serious threat for the league.

“I think the lads are starting to believe we’re a good side now. It’s just carrying that on because these games over Christmas and into January are a bit of a slog but they are what define the league.”

Stanley slipped to sixth, after coming back from behind to rescue a point at Stevenage on Saturday, but are only five points off the automatic spots.

And Procter believes that if they were to achieve another top seven finish this term the club would be able to learn from the mistakes they made last time around.

“I think there are a few regrets from that play-off season,” he said.

“In that play-off season, it was probably the best team I played regularly in. We just let ourselves down against a well organised Stevenage team.

“And if you look at it the following season they actually made the play-offs in League One. People had their opinions about them but they were difficult to beat.

“I think if we’d have played Torquay we’d have beaten them comfortably. Stevenage just did a job on us really.”

Stanley have had some close calls with the promotion shake-up since.

“I think the year we had Michael Symes we should have gone up,” he said.

“We didn’t win for eight games and only missed out on the play-offs by about four points.

“Come Christmas last year I thought we were really going to make a push for the play-offs.

“Unfortunately we lost a couple of lads, John O’Sullivan being the main one, and we dropped a little bit and let ourselves down towards the end of the season. But from when I came in I think we had one point after six games to finishing comfortably. I suppose you could say it was quite a successful season really.”