SHAKERS caretaker-boss Graham Barrow has urged his team to end a run of seven straight defeats at home to Lincoln in the Nationwide Third Division on Saturday.

Barrow wants his side to build on an encouraging display in defeat at Huddersfield last Sunday.

"The name of the game is stopping the rot tomorrow," he said.

"If we can do that, then I think things will settle down a bit.

"We have to be heartened by the early part of the Carlisle game where we did well and the whole of the Huddersfield match."

One major plus point at the McAlpine Stadium was the form of Lee Duxbury, who was restored to the team in a deep-lying midfield role. The Bury boss expects striker Joe O'Neill to have recovered from an ankle injury to be included in the squad while Lee Unsworth's progress from his groin injury will be monitored.