GLYNN Hurst has set a season target of 20 goals for himself - and any other striker who comes in to challenge for his first-team place.

The Bury hitman was perhaps more glad than anyone else to return to pre-season training this week having missed out at Shrewsbury last year with an ankle injury.

The result was a slow start to the campaign, even though he exploded on to the scene at Gigg Lane when he first arrived at the club, initially on loan.

Hurst struggled to reach full fitness throughout the season, but with a full summer build-up behind him, the 31-year-old master poacher has pledged to better his tally of 13 goals last term.

And what is more, the Shakers striker said that any of the forwards Chris Casper is looking to recruit should also be looking to hit the magical 20-goal marker.

"I want to score 20 goals this season. If I had played the first 10 games of last season then I wouldn't have been far off," Hurst said.

"I don't know if there are more strikers coming in, but I'd say that two isn't enough. If we can get one or two more in, then the challenge is for them to get 20 goals too.

"It's a squad game and if we are scoring goals, then the team is doing well."

Hurst has also set an ambitious target of six wins from the first 10 games of the season, hoping once again to find the side in play-off contention at Christmas.

But unlike last term, when the wheels came off in spectacular fashion with a 16-game winless streak, Hurst said the squad's mentality must be stronger.

"There is no reason not to be at the top of the table," Hurst said. "Looking back at last season when we were up near the top, I just wonder whether we thought we deserved to be there.

"For me, that is what it was. Maybe as a group of players, and to a certain extent the management, maybe we all thought that we didn't deserve to be where we were."