JUDGED on this performance Viney have enough dry powder to battle their way to safety – but it is going to take a mighty effort.

A couple of new signings and key players returning from injury will give manager Kim Pritchard more fire power than he has had for several months of County League misery.

"The signs are pretty good but we realise it is not going to be easy," said Viney Hill's long-serving official Alec Thomas.

The table, he said, had split in two with five or six clubs fighting for top spot and six teams at the bottom separated by only three points.

"Five good results and we could end up with a comfortable mid-table position," said Alec.

So it's 10 games to go and everything to play for ... and with half of the games on their impressive hilltop ground there will be few people prepared to gamble they will fail.

Alec said the topsy-turvy season had brought some unusual results.

"We have overcome some of the top teams – Thornbury for example – but slipped up against sides we should have beaten," he said.

Saturday's victory was a boost.

Matty Jones fired in a header from a beautifully weighted cross to make it 1-0 at half-time.

A quarter of an hour into the second-half and Viney had the game in the bag as Adam Mayo slotted in number two from close range and as the pressure mounted on the Bristol team they failed to clear a cross and conceded an own goal.