IF you want to see goals on a Saturday afternoon you could do worse than to follow Atherton LR.

Rovers’ last six matches have seen a total of 25 goals scored, an average of more than four per game.

And, after their latest outing, a hugely impressive 6-1 win at AFC Blackpool, manager Shaun Lynch is aiming to maintain their free-scoring ways but tighten thing up in defence.

Their back four has regularly seen wholesale changes but, with Jack Taylor back after a spell as a pro in Sweden, Dave Davies coming back from a broken foot, Lewis Welsh back at Crilly Park and academy team player Don Shepherd doing well at right-back the manager expects an upturn in form to come now.

“That result has been coming for a while, we’ve been a bit unlucky recently with injuries, especailly at centre-back and we’ve let more in than we would like,” said Lynch.

“But we have got a few lads coming back and after Saturday we’ve got something to build on now.”

LR thumps their hosts on the coast with their three-man forward line all chipping in.

Gary Grier got the goal glut under way eight minutes in and after Theo Kidd and Ashley Woodhead had also found the net, Grier made it 4-0 to the visitors just before half time.

It took Grier just five minutes of the second half to complete his hat-trick and Kidd’s second made the score 6-0 with 15 minutes to play.

Billy McKenna scored a consolation for Blackpool late in the game but it had been a job well done for Lynch’s side.

They may have been leaking goals but potency up front means they have a goal difference of minus one, 21 goals better off than Holker Old Boys one place above them in the table.

“On the whole we’ve been doing okay,” added the manager. “We’ve been chopping and changing a lot, which doesn’t help – we had a great win at New Mills last month, beating them 4-1, and then the next week we had three of our back four missing so it’s like starting again from scratch.

“If we can keep a settled defensive unit we’ll do okay because we have got goals in us.

“We just need to shut the back door.”

Elsewhere, Daisy Hill suffered a third straight loss, Phil Roberts’ men going down 5-0 at FC Oswestry Town.