BURY supporters will be pleased to know Ryan Lowe is going nowhere.

The 36-year-old striker made a welcome return to the Shakers' fold in the summer but his second spell at the club has been stop-start due to injury.

He underwent a hernia operation before the turn of the year and tore his hamstring against Wycombe in January.

But after being coaxed back to full fitness by manager David Flitcroft, the fans’ favourite is back in the groove.

He scored his first goal of the year at Newport recently and followed that up with a match-winner against Portsmouth last Saturday, taking his tally to 10 in 36 appearance this season.

And Lowe is determined to fire Bury to promotion before seeing out the second year of his contract – at least.

“I have got 12 months left and if we do go up I am here to the end, and hopefully further on as well,” he said, confident in his belief that he could still do a job in League One.

“I have got plans, but I feel fitter than I have ever felt and I will keep going until my legs or someone tells me not to.

“I didn't start (my professional career) until I was 20 so it is only 16 years. I will just keep going as long as the team and the manager want me.

“I am going nowhere. Hopefully the next contract I sign will have something to do with working with the kids or the backroom staff, but I am here to keep playing as long as I can and to help out this football club.”

Lowe was the star man of Bury’s last promotion campaign in 2010/11 and was voted League Two player of the season after scoring 28 goals.

He was snapped up by Sheffield Wednesday in August 2011, but since returning to Bury last summer, via spells at MK Dons and Tranmere, the veteran striker’s place in the dressing room has changed.

At times this season he has had to play second fiddle to the club’s other forwards – Danny Nardiello, Danny Rose, Hallam Hope and Tom Eaves – but he has remained the elder statesman, a leader on and off the pitch.

“I was brought here to score goals. I would have liked to have scored more, but you look at the tally that all of the forwards have scored, it’s more than enough,” he said, with Nardiello on 14 for the campaign and Rose on 10.

“We know it’s not just about me scoring goals or Nards or Rosey.

“People are not happy when they aren’t playing, or when they are playing and coming off.

“But you can’t be spitting your dummy out, we’ve got to put up with it if we want to get to where we want to get to at this football club.

“That’s the philosophy and the way the gaffer has created this momentum, with all the lads together.”

Flitcroft has tended not to start Lowe in consecutive matches, so the Wirral hitman may have to make do with a place on the bench today, when Bury entertain Wimbledon in their final home game of the season.

Lowe came on after 30 minutes at Portsmouth and played the full 90 on Tuesday, when Bury dropped to fifth place in the table following a 1-0 defeat by Southend, which left them two points outside the top three.