SHAKERS supremo Andy Preece claims their relegation rivals will be rattled by Bury's late survival charge.

The Good Friday defeat to drop zone dodgers Northampton left them teetering over the Division Two trapdoor.

But Monday's stunning 2-0 win over promotion-chasing Brentford hauled them back to within a point of escaping the bottom four.

Now their sights are firmly set on leapfrogging Notts County and Northampton over the next three matches and Preece claims his charges could have a psychological edge after stinging the Bees.

"It will have opened their eyes and made them think," he said.

"They will have been looking at our fixtures and not expecting us to get anything from the Brentford match. Now, all of a sudden, we are back in the melting pot.

"Notts County will be wondering what's happening to them. They were 2-0 up at half-time against QPR but ended up losing 3-2. That's the first game they have lost in a long while and you don't know how that will affect them.

"And Northampton would have been happy to get a point from their game with Reading until they saw our result. It just showed that there are many twists and turns to come."

The Brentford success means Bury travel down to Bristol City tomorrow with renewed confidence as more familiar faces return to the fold.

Baichung Bhutia should play some part at Ashton Gate after being sidelined with knee ligament damage for most of the season, while Steve Redmond is also verging on a return after playing for the reserves this week.

Defender Jamie Stuart is almost certain to return to the starting line-up after bruising his ankle and Preece admitted he was finding it difficult to hold his injured players back as they play through the pain barrier to keep Shakers up.

"Jamie Stuart actually asked if he could play on Monday but you could see he wasn't ready yet. That's the character of all the players here. Nobody is shirking the workload and everyone gives their all for the club," he said.

"We have been without several key players for the majority of the season and any team with so many players missing are going to struggle.

"But the lads have put in a big effort to keep us in with a fighting chance and now it needs another massive effort to get us out of it. We never gave up hope and now that hope's even bigger.

"Since the administrators have come in, there has only been one game where I thought our performance was unacceptable. We could easily have taken points from every single game since then.

"I'm sure some of the fans and the media gave up on us after the Northampton defeat but we have always kept believing and I'm sure we can survive."