O'Neill has never reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup as a manager before, a strange anomaly for a manager who has won the League Cup twice with Leicester and the Scottish Cup on three occasions with Celtic.
And although Stockport boast a two-times FA Cup winner in manager Gary Ablett - the first man to win the trophy with both Liverpool and Everton - home advantage and a much superior league placing in the football pyramid, Smith is not giving up hope of a shock.