Telford are chasing loan deal forward
AFC Telford United assistant boss Larry Chambers has confirmed the club are looking to tie up a loan deal for a new forward in time for the trip to Gloucester City.
The Bucks fell to a 3-1 defeat at Gainsborough Trinity on Saturday and goalscorer Josh Wilson limped off late in the second half with a hamstring injury.
Dave Hibbert took a knock to his knee but the striker believes he will be okay for the trip to Gloucester tomorrow (7.45pm).
Telford have the second-worst attack in National League North, having scored only eight goals in their opening 10 matches.
Stalybridge Celtic, who the Bucks beat 2-0 on August 18, have managed just seven.
On their lack of a cutting edge, Chambers said: "We have been offered players, but we are not going to bring someone in for the sake of it.
"There have been some developments over the last couple of days and I would like to think we will have somebody else in the squad, a striker or a winger, for the game against Gloucester.
"We probably need more than just the one. It will be a loan deal. Of all the players we have been offered recently, we think this will be the right fit – but time will tell."
Micah Evans, Tom Peers and Wilson are the Bucks' joint top scorers in the league so far, netting two goals each.
Hibbert and Danny Reynolds are the other two who have managed to find the net. "We need a goalscorer. This season we have created chances and even against Kidderminster last week, we had chances late on and we didn't take them," added Chambers.
"Gainsborough got the goal and it changed the game.
"I thought their players got better and grew in confidence when they got the goal and we've had opportunities this season so far and not taken them.
"If you don't take your chances or haven't got a goalscorer, it's always difficult and you're always asking the defence to perform for long periods in the hope you get something from a set-piece."
Bucks were punished at Trinity when keeper James Montgomery saved an Ashley Worsfold spot-kick and a Jordan Thewlis follow-up before Thewlis finally scored.
"I am disappointed," added Chambers.
"When your keeper saves the first one and the second one and we are nowhere near either of then that shows a lack of desire."
