Guiseley cross the Pennines tomorrow to take on the UniBond Division One's basement outfit Trafford with a poignant reminder to the players not to take it lightly.
"Trafford are struggling but so are we. We have lost three on the trot and all away from home," warned manager Neil Parsley.
"The run of fixtures hasn't helped us with games at Spennymoor United, Bamber Bridge and North Ferriby United, two of whom have aspirations to gain automatic promotion.
"We should have had the chance to break that run with a home game against Eastwood Town who are second from bottom but that match was postponed. We find ourselves back on the road with nothing to show from our last three.
"I know we have to play every team in the division away from home at some point but it's unfortunate that the last three have fallen as they have. We are also away next Saturday so five out of six games will be ones we have had to travel to."
The visit to Trafford is a re-arranged fixture in itself after being postponed earlier in the season.
Parsley names a 15-man squad in the hope that defender Nathan Hay will be ready for a return to action. Hay picked up a hamstring strain in the first of the back-to-back victories against Rossendale United at the end of last month.
There is a doubt over right back Peter Atkinson after he damaged a thigh muscle in Tuesday's 3-1 defeat at second-placed Ferriby.
Guiseley (from); Lamb, Atkinson, Nettleton, Wordsworth, Shaw, Cooke, Shuttleworth, Chattoe, Henry, Nesovic, Bailey, Stuart, Freeman, Sumner, Hay.
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