Bruce admits to being a striker light

THIS drawn-out season might still have almost a month to run, but already Steve Bruce is turning his thoughts to the new campaign.

The Wigan manager cannot wait for the summer to arrive, not least so he can bolster his striking resources, which are on the thinner side of threadbare.

With no replacement signed in January for the departed Emile Heskey and Amr Zaki set to leave at the end of the season, following his much-publicised fall-out with Bruce, new arrivals cannot come soon enough.