 Pugh was a regular for the Blues in a variety of positions, it not being until the closing stages of the 1991–92 season that he began to make the left wing slot his own.Two years later he finished as the club's top league scorer with 12 strikes as Chester won promotion from Division Three 12 months after being relegated.Pugh scored in the promotion clincher against Hereford United on 23 April 1994, the day before the birth of his daughter

This marked the end of Pugh's Chester career, as he opted to stay in Division Three by joining Bury in the summer of 1994.