Eastleigh manager Paul Doswell has another ex-Saint in his sights.

The ambitious Jewson Wessex League leaders are keeping tabs on frontrunner Nicky Banger, who is growing frustrated on the subs' bench at Conference outfit Woking.

Doswell confirmed: "We're in negotiations with Nicky and would like him to come to us for the rest of the season.

"He's been left on the bench at Woking recently and wants to be playing.

"He signed a one-year deal up there, which takes him to the end of the season, but if gets paid up at Woking then we're definitely interested.

"We might even get him signed in time for our game at Fareham on Saturday."

Southampton-born Banger, 32, is no stranger to Wessex football having played in Andover's crucial title-clincher at Fleet Town at the back end of last season.

Saints fans will remember him as the cherub-faced 19-year-old, who scored a hat-trick on his first-team debut against Rochdale in the Rumbelows Cup in October 1990.

Since leaving The Dell in 1994, his injury-interrupted career has taken him to such far-flung ports of call as Oldham, Oxford, Plymouth, Dundee and Scunthorpe United.

If the Eastleigh move goes through, Banger wouldn't be short of ex-Saints company at Ten Acres where the likes of David Hughes, Christer Warren, Phil Warner - and even Matthew Le Tissier - are already on the playing staff.