MORECAMBE are racing to get star striker Cole Stockton fit in time to face Wanderers on Saturday.

The striker missed the Shrimps’ 1-0 derby defeat against Fleetwood Town last weekend and had been subbed early in the previous game against Port Vale.

Despite being outside the relegation zone on goal difference, Derek Adams’ side has lost just once in 11 games at the Mazuma Stadium.

Now the Scot hopes Stockton – the club’s 23-goal top scorer last season – and fellow front man Michael Mellon can recover from injury in time to help the cause.

“Bolton are trying to get promotion and are in the play-off places, so it will be tough,” he said.

“They have done really well in recent times and are chasing the pack.”

Adams, now a year into his second spell at Morecambe, has also called for the club to sort out a proposed takeover in order to bring much-needed investment to the first team.

“It’s been an extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely difficult year,” Adams remarked.

“It has been the biggest job I have ever had. I have alluded to the reasons why that has been that way, but it is difficult on the pitch and off it as well.

“We are never going to move ahead unless we move ahead off the pitch.

“I am only the manager of the club on the pitch and the club has to get its act together off the pitch and do it quite quickly.

“As a manager or head coach, if you don’t have the money to buy players at this level, it makes it difficult and until anything changes we have to do our best with what we have.”