Manager Steve Kittrick has reassured his squad they all have a part to play this season.

The Lions chief increased his numbers following promotion to the Conference North as UniBond Premier Division champions.

And while he has not needed to call on that bigger pool of players so far as Guiseley have hit the ground running in their first Blue Square Bet North campaign, he fully expects to at some stage.

Kittrick said: “We have a squad of very good players and they are all decent lads.

“People are looking to get into the team and, with us having a good run, it is difficult.

“They know they will get their chances and we have all sat down to talk about that.

“We have 20 or 22 players that are all more than capable of playing in this division but we can only put 11 out on the pitch at any one time. Maintaining a squad of this size takes a lot of understanding from all sides.

“It’s not like being at a full-time club where you have 24 players all on contract who just have to get on with it.

“We can afford contracts for 12 or 14 players and the others have to be training well and challenging to get into the team to earn their money.

“That makes it difficult because you get people being tapped up by other clubs and the promise of a few quid here or there.

“That’s why you get lads coming to say if I’m not getting into the side I could go to such a club and get x pounds.

“You have all that to deal with. In fact, full-time managers have it easy in comparison and yet, when they fail and get sacked, they are the first names on the shortlist for the next opportunity that comes up, which seems bizarre to me.

“It astounds me that full-time managers, and the chairmen and boards of those Football League clubs get stuff so wrong. In my opinion it is short sightedness by the people in positions at those clubs.

“Why can you get rewarded for failure in football when it would lead to you never working again in any other job, industry or walk of life. If you don’t do your job right on a building site or in a factory you get sacked and you have to prove yourself all over again to get hired somewhere else.

“That isn’t the case in football because you can spend £20million of the club’s money, fail miserably, get the sack and get head-hunted by another club before the ink is dry on your P45! That has to be wrong.”