Guiseley, desperate to get back to winning ways after five successive defeats, were thwarted on Saturday when the gales and rain prevented any play at Nethermoor. Guiseley were due to entertain Marine in a re-arranged UniBond League game but found their ground waterlogged on Saturday morning.

The high winds had also caused some structural damage to the main stand and to fencing panels around the ground.

Guiseley fans had been looking forward to the debut of new centre-back Lee Connor hoping that he could stem the worrying trend of the side having conceded a goal in the 90th minute of each of those five successive defeats.

Parsley has put 'seven days' in to speak to Barrow centre-back James Cotterill who is a former trainee with Scunthorpe United and played for the first team there in 2000-01. The Barnsley-born 21 year-old has played 27 games for Barrow this season

Parsley is also looking to sign striker Arran Woolford from Scottish club Clyde. The former Middlesbrough player has also had experience with Whitby, Worksop and Harrogate Town and is a renowned goalscorer.

Manager Neil Parsley had shown the door to centre-back James Stansfield who came to Nethermoor at the start of the season after a career which had seen him reach the heights with Huddersfield Town but then slip down the leagues via Halifax Town and Bradford Park Avenue.

Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him.

Parsley admitted he 'dropped a clanger' when Guiseley suffered a disastrous home defeat to lowly Gateshead in their last game.

He conceded that it was his own team selection which cost his side the points against Gateshead in the UniBond League Premier Division clash.

He brought Stansfield straight back into the side, following his suspension for accumulated bookings, in place of young Gary Anderson who is on loan from York City. The move certainly backfired.

Parsley said it was a mistake by Stansfield which allowed Gateshead to intercept the ball in injury-time and snatch a winner.

The manager said that Stansfield would be the first out of the club in an impending shake-up.The manager hopes to bring in three new players to keep his side's promotion challenge alive.

Parsley said: "We can't buy a win at the moment, although to be fair we should have beaten Gateshead. It was however one of those games where the longer it went on and the more saves their 'keeper made, you just knew it was not going to be your day.

"Lo and behold an horrendous individual error cost us deep into injury-time. I have got to hold my hands up. I dropped a clanger in my team selection. The young lad I brought in from York, Gary Anderson, was left on the bench and I brought Stansfield back. In hindsight I cocked up and should have left Gary in.

"We need to make some changes now. We have had some difficult games against Farsley, Hyde and Matlock but with all due respect to Gateshead we should be beating sides like that and would have done a month ago.

"We were up to fifth or sixth but we are in danger of throwing away all our hard work from the first half of the season in the space of five or six games.

"I am not down and there is no crisis or anything like that, but it is important that we do turn things around. I feel as though I have given the players a fair crack but now I need to strengthen things and I will definitely have some new faces coming in.

"Stansfield is one of those to make way. I have been disappointed with his form and I haven't got the budget to carry players who are not performing."

Our poor run of form has coincided with a lot of injuries but I hope to have Scott Jackson back for Saturday's trip to Blyth.

Guiseley Reserves entertain Horsforth St Margaret's on Saturday in the semi-finals of the Wharfedale FA Challenge Cup with a 3 pm kick-off. Both sides have seen little action of late with the Christmas break and last week's bad weather.