TWO goals in his last two games have given Gareth Seddon's season a new lease of life.

The 23-year-old Burnley-born front man has recently signed a contract to the end of the season, after being restricted to a short term arrangement for most of the campaign.

And the new deal looks to be paying dividends in the goals-for column, as far as the former RAF fitness instructor is concerned.

Last Saturday's 63rd second winning goal against an unlucky Cambridge United side came hard on the heels of the opener in the 2-1 defeat at Carlisle seven days earlier, a game that Seddon certainly didn't think the Shakers deserved to lose.

"We battered Carlisle and could well have won, yet last week, against Cambridge we probably got the rub of the green to get the three points," he said.

"Cambridge probably ended up feeling the way we did a week earlier.

"But any victory is great for us at the minute, there's no way we want to be looking at a relegation battle.

"Though, to be fair, none of the lads are even thinking about that.

"We just need to get settled in mid-table and with a bit of confidence we can start playing well again."

Last week's strike was Seddon's fifth of the season and his first at Gigg Lane this term, after finding the net at Kidderminster, Mansfield, Darlington - the club's 6,000th league goal - and Carlisle.

After a miserable 2002-2003 campaign in which he almost had his career written-off with a niggling back problem, he is back happy at what he does best and has even enlisted the help of the club's goalkeepers to up his goals tally.

"I've been speaking to Glyn (Garner) and Lewis (Solly), asking them which shots keepers think are the hardest to save," he said.

"It's a case of learning what strikers should do against goalkeepers in certain situations.

"With a bit of confidence behind you, you tend not to snatch at chances as much."

And the thought of taking on high-flying Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium tomorrow doesn't worry Seddon, despite Ian Atkins' side boasting an unbeaten home record.

"We have no fears going down there," he said.

"We've a good set of lads here and if we take our chances and keep another clean sheet you never know.

"They will come at us and we'll be looking to find some room behind them."