DUNBAR United will take on anybody at home after reaching the last 16 of the Scottish Junior Cup for the first time in more than a decade, according to their manager.

The Seasiders came through 3-1 against Benburb on Saturday and will find out their opponents, which could include giants like Auchinleck Talbot and Linlithgow Rose, on Tuesday.

Dunbar boss Geoff Jones was delighted to see his team progress and told Courier Sport: “It was a good day for the club.

“The scoreline probably paints a picture of the match that is a tad unfair on them.

“They were the better side in the first half but in the second half we were far better and dominated the game.”

The manager, who reached the last 16 as a player, told his players to start the game quickly and they responded in impressive fashion.

Barely 90 seconds were on the clock when Sam Young headed home Chris Grant’s cross.

Unfortunately, the visitors soon equalised through Ryan Livingstone.

Jones said: “I told the boys before the game that we needed to start fast and do what teams had been doing to us in the last few weeks.

“They have been getting on the front foot early and it was an important goal to get but it worked against us.

“We almost had too good a start and we stood off them and allowed them to get into the game.

"We relaxed, whereas if we had gone for it and got another goal in the next five, 10, 15 minutes, it could have been game over.”

Dunbar would take control in the second half, though, with Scott Gibson and then Dean Ballantyne firing home to send the county side through to the fifth round.

The draw takes place next week and could see Dunbar paired up with Musselburgh, who travel to Kirkintilloch Rob Roy this weekend.

Jones, who works as a project manager for a design company in Edinburgh, was keen to avoid the near-neighbours, though.

He wanted East Lothian to be represented for as long as possible in the top cup competition in junior football and would prefer two teams in the quarter-finals as opposed to one.

Now, Dunbar turn their attention back to league action and face a West Calder side just three points behind them in the league.

The New Countess Park side’s cup heroics mean league football has taken a back seat, with Dunbar now trailing Blackburn United and Pumpherston by 12 and eight points respectively.

However, Jones’s men have three games in hand over both.

The manager said: “When I was a player back in 2000, we had a good cup run and got to the last 16.

“We got beaten by Ardeer Thistle and it cost us promotion because we had such a rack of games to play.

“We have put ourselves in a decent position.

“We have not had many times where we have let ourselves down but one of those was against Pumpherston.

“If we win our games in hand we are right in amongst it.”