FARSLEY Celtic's 62-game season comes to an end tomorrow and, whatever happens in their promotion play-off final, midfielder Ross Daly feels that it will have been a very long but a very positive one.

Daly picked up an injury recently but he has been involved in the Celts’ last two fixtures, and he’s hoping to play some part in the winner-takes-all derby against Ossett Town at Throstle Nest.

Farsley go into the game in fine form after a 5-0 win at Kendal Town on the final day of the regular season and a 4-0 victory over Colne in Tuesday's play-off semi-final.

Daly spent the last 20 minutes in the middle of the action, and said: “Everyone played really well on the night and we got the all-important win.

“I picked up a hamstring injury in the game at Colwyn Bay, so I missed the Ossett Town defeat in our second-to-last league game, but I made my comeback at Kendal as a second-half substitute and then played on Tuesday.

“It doesn’t really make that much difference who plays because there are good players waiting to come in.

"Every time you look at our bench you always see good players - players that have been unlucky not to start.

“At Kendal, I was on the bench with Ryan Watson, Chris Atkinson and Nathan Turner - all very good and experienced players.

"I was wondering if I’d get on, and I was glad when I did because everyone just wants to be playing in these big games.”

The only player Farsley seem to have missed this season is James Walshaw.

He is the club’s leading scorer but his discipline has let him down as he has picked up three straight red cards this campaign.

Walshaw was suspended for three games for the first of those sendings off, four games for the second and five for the third - a total of 12 games, which equates to a quarter of the league season.

The players are fully behind their talismanic forward though, and Daly said: “The results show that we miss Wally when he’s not playing.

“With the players we have, the team always has goals in it, and everyone has chipped in this season, but Wally is the one who’s got a hatful, and our opponents know they have to defend well if he’s in the team.

“He’s got that edge about him but none of us would want him to lose that because it’s just a part of his game - he’s competitive.

"He’s been a bit unlucky this season with some of the decisions, and he gets his fair share of rough treatment from some of the defenders.”