Liam Watson: Goals will come at AFC Telford

Goals have not flowed too freely for the Bucks in their warm-up games and none of the team's forwards have found the net.

But Watson has faith in his strike force which will include last season's 17-goal top-scorer Adam Farrell as well as Tony Gray, Sam Smith and Andy Owens.

And he is adamant that defence must be the focus in pre-season for his Skrill Conference North champions, who last season shipped 53 goals on their way to the title.

Watson said: "We have basically tried to look at things defensively in the pre-season. I am not overly worried about us attacking, because that will come.

"We have got goal scorers at the club so that will happen, but even though we won the league last year we conceded too many goals.

"It was abundantly clear that there were problems there. We hardly ever kept a clean sheet. It was so obvious to me that it was a big issue, and it is something that I specifically wanted to work on."

Watson has bolstered his back-line with signings of defenders Kristian Platt, Steve Akrigg and Rod McDonald, as well as goalkeeper Jonathan Hedge.

And he said: "The back four is looking to gel and obviously we have a new keeper as well, but I think that the stuff at the other end of the pitch will come with a little bit of sharpness.

"Forwards need to play together to get an understanding and it is hard to do that when you are trying to juggle things to get 90 minutes into them all."

Watson expects to complete the signing of ex-Mansfield midfielder Godfrey Poku within the next 24 hours having reached an agreement on a one-year deal.

But the Telford chief has opted not to follow up his interest in trialist Moubarak Moumouni.