BURNLEY striker Andy Gray is not feeling under pressure to get his name back on the scoresheet.

The Clarets have only scored three goals in their last 10 outings in a winless streak that has lasted 13 games - their worst run since 1979.

But Gray, who scored 10 goals before suffering a broken foot back in November, is confident he can strike up a potent partnership with new recruit Ade Akinbiyi and the pair can fire Burnley back up the table.

He said: ""I don't think I'm going to feel pressured, the bad run isn't down to me being out. Sometimes in a season you have bad periods. I probably put the pressure on myself more. I want to be back playing well, scoring goals and hopefully getting us as high up in the league as we can.

"Ade and I have hardly played a full game together yet so it's still early days. I'm sure it will be a good partnership though. I just come in quite short and hold the ball up more and Ade is more of a threat in behind so we should complement each other quite well."

However, Gray, who made his comeback as a substitute against QPR at the start of the month and has started every game since against Sheffield Wednesday, Wolves and Leicester, revealed he is still playing through the pain barrier.

He added: "I'm not 100% yet. The first few games are always going to be like that. You've got to be cautious. As each day goes by it's getting better. It's just a question of time really. Hopefully in the next fortnight, I should be fully up and running."

"The foot is still quite painful at times. I'm not training every single day and I can't really go on the grass every day at the moment because it can swell up a bit."

Meanwhile, manager Steve Cotterill has admitted he is impressed with the impact new captain Steven Caldwell has made.

The Scottish centre half struck up an instant partnership with the experienced John McGreal after making a late transfer deadline day switch from Sunderland last month, and he has proved to be a solid addition to the rearguard.

But it isn't just Caldwell's defensive capabilities that have caught Cotterill's eye.

The 26-year-old has provided a potent threat at set pieces and was denied his first Burnley goal only by the crossbar at Wolves.

"Steven has been close to scoring. Just a touch," said Cotterill, who has refuted rumours that he is about to strengthen his defence by signing Sheffield United out-of-favour defender David Sommeil.

"He's been a bit unlucky. I think he was a bit annoyed with himself in the first half against Leicester when he didn't connect with a header.

"I don't know whether he saw it late, but he didn't head it properly and I was expecting him to be rubbing his nose because it was almost like it shocked him a bit.

"But he gives us something else, and I said to Thommo (Wayne Thomas) before the game he's another one that's a threat at set plays, and we need him to chip in with a couple of goals like he has done in the past in his career."

And Cotterill admitted that there was no ill-feeling after handing the captaincy over from Thomas to Caldwell this week.

"To be fair to Thommo, he had the captaincy taken off him before the game but didn't show any signs of that the other night," he said. "I felt he didn't sulk, I thought he was just allowed to go out there and concentrate on his own game, and until you make people captain, you don't actually know how they're going to be.

"It's not a slight on Thommo. I just felt he could and would grow into being a decent captain. Having said that I think sometimes you can look as if you take it on board too much and I think he was at a stage where he needed to perhaps concentrate on his own game and not worry too much about the others, which he did used to do.

"So it was easier to unburden him rather than, as it would be, take the captaincy off him.

"Steven Caldwell's been used to being a captain for quite a few years now. He was captain of a big club at Sunderland so I didn't think he would have too many problems taking on board the captaincy here.

"He seems to have taken it very well at the minute."