BURNLEY used a staggering 52 players in the reserves this season as the Pontins League team juggled the requirements of first-teamers, youngsters and trialists.

Left-back Michael Devenney and winger Brad Maylett chalked up the most appearances with 20, plus one apiece as substitute.

Midfielder Paul Graham played 19 games and Gareth West 16 as the Clarets reserves were relegated from Division One.

Top-scorer for the reserves was Phil Eastwood with seven, with the other Pontins League goals coming from Tony Shandran (3), Colin Carr-Lawton, Eammon Kelly, John Williamson and Ben Woods (all 2), Matty Heywood and Brad Maylett (one each).

The full list of reserve appearances was: Brass 3, Berry 1 (1), Bowdon (1), Collins 2 (2)m Carr-Lawton 11, Callaghan 5 (1), Clark (2), Devenney 20 (1), Doherty 2, Eastwood 13 (3), Ford 8 (1), Gregson 2 (2), Graham 19 (1), Heywood 14, Henderson 12 (1), Holier 1, Jensen 1, Jepson 1, Kelly 5 (5), Kval 13 (1), Kevan 6 (7), Little 1, Lehtinen 1, Morgan 8, Mawson 9 (1), Maylett 20 (1), McNeil 1, McVeigh 2, McDonald 1, McCoy 1, Moore 3, O'Brien 2, Petit 1, Pfannenstiel 1, Paxton 1 (1), Pickering 1, Poppleton 1, Robertson 1, Reid 4, Scott 10, C Smith 7 (2), P Smith 3, Shandran 6 (5), Sandal 1, Vindheim 8 (3), Vasseur 1, Woods 2 (5), West 16 (1), Williamson 11, Winstanley 1, Williams 1, Young 1. Statistics: Dave Cairns.

THE CLARETS average home League crowd this season was 9,298, with the highest gate the 17,251 which saw the visit of Manchester City.

The lowest League gate was 8,526 for the visit of MiIlwall.

EXISTING season-ticket holders at Turf Moor have until Friday, May 28 to renew and retain the seats they held for the season just finished. After this date they will be offered for open sale.

The ticket office will then be closed for administration purposes and will re-open on Wednesday, June 2 for anyone wishing to exchange their seats to other areas.

The last day for purchasing a seat at discount price is Saturday, June 12, which is also the last day supporters can apply to pay by the direct debit instalment plan.

JIMMY Glass's remarkable relegation-sparing goal for Carlisle United came as no great surprise to Clarets winger Glen Little. Little was a young player with Glass at Crystal Palace and remembered the keeper's shooting prowess from training together.

Glass, who came out of goal to score the injury-time winner and keep Carlisle in the Football League, trained as an outfield player when he was recovering from two broken wrists.

The Swindon keeper was on loan at Carlisle and earlier in his career also had a loan spell at Turf Moor, without playing a senior game.

BURNLEY will know on Monday if there is a piece of silverware to put in the Turf Moor trophy cabinet after Tranmere have played their last game in the Lancashire League.

The Merseysiders will beat Burnley to the championship by virtue of their goal-scoring record if they take three points off Leek Town.

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