BURNLEY'S three musketeers, Gareth Taylor, Ian Moore and Glen Little, are aiming to shoot the Clarets into the Premier League and set some personal records on the way.

All three players were on the scoresheet in the weekend win against Stockport County at Turf Moor and they have now got 25 goals between them, more than half the team's total of 48.

Fourteen of those goals have come during the current unbeaten nine match run that dates back to the 2-2 draw at Gillingham.

Taylor has scored nine goals to date, everyone with his head, and he needs only three more to match his season's best total of 12, a figure he reached for both Bristol Rovers and Sheffield United.

Rival managers have been fulsome in their praise for the big striker who, according to Grimsby manager Lennie Lawrence, is "in the best form of his life".

Taylor arrived at Burnley on a free transfer from Manchester City in the summer having impressed during a loan spell at the end of last season and his current hot streak of six goals in his last eight starts would suggest Lawrence is right.

It has also been the perfect riposte to Wales boss Mark Hughes who left him out of the last international squad having called him up earlier in the season.

"I can't help what happens with Wales, I just want to do my best for Burnley," promised Taylor.

His strike partner Ian Moore has come back after a run of 13 games without a goal to score three times in the last three matches.

His double that secured three points at Crystal Palace delighted everyone connected with the club and he followed it up with a strike against his former club.

His best ever total of goals in a season is also 12 and it came last year, the first seven for Stockport County, the next five after his £1million switch to Turf Moor. He now has seven goals to his name in this campaign and is on target for a season's best. That is a feat already achieved by winger Glen Little.

He took his tally for the season to nine with his cool penalty against County.

Earlier this season he said: "It would be nice to get into double figures for the first time," and that target is now just one away.

He has struck with both feet, most memorably his stunning double at Birmingham City when he hit two contenders for goal of the season.

In the past he has not really delivered the number of goals his talents demand and his previous highest total is just five, three seasons ago.

John Ward, the assistant manager at promotion rivals Wolves, worked with Little when he first came to Turf Moor and he said: "Glen appears to have added goalscoring to his skills and that was really the only thing he was missing."

Until recent weeks the goals had been shared around the side with most of the regulars finding the net at various times.

But having seen his side only score 50 goals in the whole of last season, manager Stan Ternent does not mind where the goals dome from.

And if his three top scorers can keep up their current form, he will be more than happy.