Farsley Celtic boss John Deacey has thrown down the gauntlet to his misfiring frontline.
* Remember to visit Farsley Today on Monday for a match report on the Woking game as well as picture slideshow of match action.The Farsley boss is desperate for his strikeforce to find their shooting boots in time to fire the relegation-threatened Celts to safety with 17 "cup finals" coming up between now and April 26.
* Click here for picture slideshows of Farsley Celtic match action.Despite a seven-game winless streak in the league, stretching back to Boxing Day, Deacey remains content enough with the level of performance, but not with their scoring drought - and principally the forwards' contribution.
Central perk is home for Farsley Celtic midfielder: Click here for James Knowles interview.Farsley have found the net just four times in their last seven league matches - with Damien Reeves having hit goals in the defeats against Aldershot and Kidderminster and co-striker Gareth Grant on target in the 5-1 trouncing at the hands of Crawley last month.
* Click here for Farsley Celtic Clockwatch.Only Northwich and Stafford have scored fewer goals than the Throstle Nest outfit this term, with Reeves the top-scorer in the league with just six.
And Deacey is anxious for an upturn if his side are to save their Blue Square Conference skins this term.
Deacey, hoping to bring in a loan forward before his troops' home clash with rejuvenated Woking tomorrow, said: "We've shored things up a bit at the back, but we cannot seem to score enough goals and that's where the problem lies.
"We've been playing reasonably well and producing some attractive football, it's just the finishing that's let us down.
"We need to be more clinical in the box. I've adjusted the forwards and I need to find the right combination."
Woking, managed for ex-Leeds United and Scotland full-back Frank Gray, come to Throstle Nest in renewed heart, having put together a cracking seven-game unbeaten run with Gray's men having claimed a noteworthy 2-2 draw at Exeter last Saturday.
But the Cardinals still remain entrenched in the bottom half of the table and Deacey insists that these are the type of games that the Celts – five points adrift
of fourth-from-bottom Altrincham and safety – must win.
Deacey added: "Frank is doing well down there. They've had a couple of decent results and it's going to be a tough one.
"But these are the sort of games we need to be taking three points from. Against the top teams, you are going to be lucky to get something out of them."
Deacey has doubts over Ryan Serrant (ankle) and Steve Downes (knee), but Roy Stamer should be fit after missing the midweek 0-0 draw at Altrincham.
Scott McNiven serves the second game of a two-game suspension, but James Knowles is back from a one-match ban.
Deacey has been busy looking for reinforcements ahead of tomorrow and is in the hunt for Huddersfield Town utility star Tom Clarke and Guiseley custodian Steve Dickinson, out in the cold at Nethermoor following the arrival of Piotr Skiba – with Celts in the market for keeping cover.
Deacey said: "It's between us and Bury for Tom Clarke and we've showed an interest in him and Andy (Ritchie) is trying to get him to come to us."
On Dickinson, he said: "I think he wants to come to us, we'll just have to see."
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