RICARDO Fuller and Richard Cresswell look set to resume their striking partnership up front this weekend but Craig Brown has warned them they had better start scoring!

So far the pair have only netted once, a Ricardo Fuller close-range header against Wigan, and have been guilty of squandering a hat full of chances since.

And with Polish international Pawel Abbott hitting the back of the net regularly in the reserves and running out top-scorer in pre-season, Brown has admitted Fuller and Cresswell need to start doing the business.

He said: "They are getting in the right positions and I think it is only a matter of time before the goals start to come. I think we will see a goal flood from them soon.

"They need to start scoring, because we have a lot of competition for the striking roles at the moment and players like Pawel Abbott, David Healy and Simon Lynch are doing well.

"In the last game, against Stoke, we had enough chances to win three games."

In fact, North End ran out 1-0 winners. It was a result which took pressure off Brown, who was facing criticism from the terraces for North End's poor start.

And talking of chopping and changing at the front will give heart to Abbott in particular, who had been linked with a loan move to Northampton.

One striker still out of contention is South African George Koumantarakis. A calf injury is expected to keep him sidelined until September 20, when Rotherham come to Deepdale.

And Claude Davis, North End's new central defender, is expected to be out for the whole month after tearing a ligament in his knee.

Brown, meanwhile, believes September will be the month that fans 'watch Preston go.'

Brown said: "We have played teams who had just come down from the Premiership and wanted to prove a point or promoted from the Second Division, and playing on rocket fuel.

"Our performances have been, with the exception of the first half against Sunderland, very good and I think we will do very well in September."

The game against Crewe will take place on October 21.