FANS can expect to see plenty of comings and goings at Worcester City over the summer as manager Carl Heeley strives to improve the team.

Only 16-goal top-scorer Sean Geddes and midfielder Connor Gater are guaranteed to be at the club next season after agreeing 18-month contracts at the turn of the year.

Heeley wants to tighten up the defence, citing the goals conceded in Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat to Gloucester City as “two of the worst goals you’ll ever see.”

He also wants to find players who can make the most of the chances being created after seeing City squander a hatful against the Tigers.

The Worcester boss, whose side remain in ninth position in the Conference North despite their seventh consecutive defeat to their rivals, said: “We want to improve on this season.

“I’m sure we’ll all look back in months to come on fond memories of this season but you can’t just accept that, we’re continually looking to move forward and it gets tougher and tougher.

“You get to a point when you hit the brick wall and there’s only so much you can achieve but we want to try to replicate what we’ve done as a bare minimum and if we can move forward then we’ll do it.

“We need to try to rebuild and be a difficult side to beat, first and foremost. That will probably mean players coming in and some will have to go out.”

Heeley said of the Gloucester defeat: “We gave away two of the worst goals you’ll ever see. The second one, the keeper kicked it the length of the pitch and the lad’s had a clear run at goal. I haven’t seen that happen in Sunday morning football and that’s the reason we’ve lost.”

He continued: “One of the things we’ve got to correct in the summer is get somebody to score goals because quite frankly the chances we’re missing is criminal.

“Without naming individuals, we don’t hit the target and if you look at the Brackley game and many others this season, we have had bags of chances and we’re incapable of taking a high enough percentage of them.”

n The annual meeting of City’s supporters’ trust takes place at 7.30pm tonight at Bishop Perowne Church of England College in Merriman’s Hill Road.