STAN Ternent will rely on the players who have got Bury this far to try to complete their promotion dream.

The Shakers boss has admitted he has no money to spend on new players and any success this season is going to have to come from within.

Speculation grew that he could be ready to dip into the transfer market after criticising his side's performance in last Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Plymouth Argyle and promising to "do something about it".

Ternent explained: "People read into it that I was going to bring players in but what it meant was that we would be working very hard in training this week - and we have been.

"The goals at Plymouth came from two silly set pieces, which is how we have conceded so many of our goals this season. I was disappointed and we have been working to get our act together during the week."

Ternent has proved a shrewd transfer market operator during his glorious 18-month Gigg Lane reign. He has spent around £400,000, bringing in five six-figure players in Rob Matthews, Gary Brabin, Dean Kiely, Paul Butler and Adrian Randall and getting back what he paid for Brabin.

But as Bury prepare for a hectic spell of 18 games in the last 10 weeks of the season, beginning with Notts County at home tomorrow, Ternent gave a clear indication that his current crop of players will be asked to carry them through. "We get three and a half thousand people through the turnstiles once a fortnight so we obviously don't have as much money as some of the other clubs in our division," he explained.

"I would like to go out and buy but I can't because there's no money to spend. But I'm not complaining, the players I've got have done very well so far."

Bury will wait for a fitness test of striker Ronnie Jepson's injured groin which has kept him out of the last two games. David Johnson is favourite to stand down again if the big target man proves his fitness.

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