ANDREW Tutte is hoping lightning can strike twice for Bury at Northampton today after a victory at Sixfields at the end of March helped kick-start their campaign last season.

The 24-year-old midfielder has fond memories of their 3-0 victory, which featured goals from then debutants Hallam Hope and Danny Rose.

It was a crucial moment for David Flitcroft’s side who went into the match facing a survival scrap, four points above Northampton, who were in the second relegation spot.

This time around it could have significance at the opposite end of the table, as the ninth-placed Shakers bid to end a nine-match winless streak and bridge a three-point gap to the play-off places.

“Last season’s game at Northampton was a scrappy one,” he recalled. “But we would take the same again if we could repeat the result – we would take anything at the moment.

“We went on a little run after that and nearly made the play-offs. So hopefully we can go there and win again, then kick on after Christmas and New Year."

The former Rochdale middle man has come to the fore in recent games, winning back his place in the starting line-up following a spell on the sidelines.

He scored the opening goal in Bury's last match – a 2-2 draw at home to York – after twice hitting the bar in their defeat at Oxford the previous weekend.

There was a stroke of good fortune about Tutte's second goal of the season after it was helped into the top corner by a sizeable deflection from former Shaker Stephane Zubar.

But the Liverpudlian' believes he and his team-mates were due a bit of luck.

“I had been working on my shooting all week in training with Brassy (Bury assistant manager Chris Brass),” he explained. “I had a little bit of luck with the deflection, but I think you make your own luck.

“I have been in and out, but you have just got to keep your head down, work hard, train hard, practice – even stay behind after training. I want to start doing that a lot more.”

Sadly, Bury were not able to ram home their advantage. Despite a Danny Nardiello header putting them 2-0 up shortly after Tutte’s second-half opener, York came back strongly to draw level.

“We should have won the game after going 2-0 up at home and looking comfortable, but we have got to stick together and hopefully we will get through this,” added Tutte.

“We’re not lacking in confidence, I think we are just conceding silly goals.

“They are mostly scrappy goals from six yards. I don't think we are getting those kinds of goals ourselves.

“But the good thing about football is that, if you get beat or drop points you normally have another game that quickly comes around so you can put that right.

“So we will work hard on the training ground with the gaffer and try to put this right on Boxing Day."