GUISELEY boss Mark Bower is hoping the heavy defeat against Macclesfield will serve as a “wake-up call” to his side ahead of their daunting trip to high-flying Forest Green.

The Lions were stuffed 3-0 at home on Tuesday night but will now seek to bounce back in Saturday’s long trek to Gloucestershire.

Rovers lie second in the National League but Bower is confident his men can find the right response to successive home losses against Lincoln and Macclesfield.

Guiseley now face two tough away trips to Forest Green at the weekend and promotion-chasing Wrexham next Wednesday.

After being dismantled by Macclesfield at Nethermoor, Bower said: “It happens to everyone over the course of the season and hopefully it has given us a wake-up call.

“Macclesfield are a very good side but we’ve got to come back from it and learn lessons from it.

“Forest Green on Saturday is a great opportunity to go and put things right.

“Nobody will give us a chance but we’ll go down there and look to get a result.

“It’s a difficult one for us, but we’re going to have to pick ourselves up and you see some crazy results week in and week out in this league. Tuesday was a bit of a reality check but we can’t be too down because on the whole we have competed well at this level.

“We’ll go to Forest Green looking to put in the kind of performance we have done over the majority of the season.

“If we do that then it has be shown that any team can beat anyone else on any given day in this league.”

The Lions have lost four times on home soil so far this term but tasted defeat only once on the road.

Bower, who will assess any players carrying knocks at training tonight, said: “Perhaps with the personnel we have in the side at the moment then we are better suited to playing away.

“On Tuesday night, playing the way we did, we are going to lose games regardless of who we are playing.

“Every team says it, and it’s a cliché, but you have to try and make your home ground a fortress.

“We just need to keep picking up points at home or away.

“Ideally we would like it to be at home in front of our own supporters. But we’ve got two really tough away games now and we’ll prepare on Thursday night for the trip to Forest Green.”