WREXHAM boss Denis Smith insists his team have plenty to play for this season.

While four successive defeats have put paid to any lingering hope of a play-off berth, Smith is adamant he still has ambitions for the remainder of the season.

'I want us to finish in the top half and win the FAW Premier Cup,' he said. 'If we win as many games as possible and do that, we'll have had a reasonable season.

'I'd have liked to have got into the play-offs, but I'll be happy with the top half.'

Dragons fans will be hoping to turn the clock back almost exactly three years on Saturday, when Luton Town visit the Racecourse.

Late goals from Brian Carey and Darren Ferguson earned Wrexham a 3-1 win in the last Racecourse meeting between the sides, in April 2001.

But Smith and his players have more painful memories of the clash at Kenilworth Road in November - from 2-0 down just prior to half-time, the Hatters came back to win 3-2.

'It was a game we should have won,' recalled Smith. 'But we've got enough bad memories without going back that far.'

The teams find themselves in contrasting positions as the season draws to a close.

While Luton needed to beat Bournemouth on Tuesday to keep their faint play-off hopes alive, the Dragons travelled to Oldham assured of Division Two survival.

Smith is confident his players will respond to the less urgent pressure of a top-half finish, adding: 'If you're a professional, you believe other clubs would do their best, whenever they're playing. That way, teams don't get an advantage.'

And the question of motivating players is not the first thing on Smith's mind - as he put it, it would be nice to have some players to motivate.

He was able to recall Darren Ferguson and Paul Edwards ahead of Tuesday's trip to Boundary Park, but was hit by the withdrawal of striker Chris Armstrong due to a pelvic problem.

'This is the most number of games I've played for several years and I think the old bones are playing up,' said Armstrong, who hopes to be fit to face Luton.

Carlos Edwards and Jim Whitley are still on the sick list with hamstring problems, while Brian Carey is struggling with his toe.

Andy Dibble and Shaun Pejic remain on the treatment table, leaving Smith's threadbare squad struggling towards the finish line.

Before the Oldham game, Wrexham had lost four in a row and had not won for a month.

And they had scored just two goals in the previous five games. Wrexham travel to Rhyl for the final of the FAW Premier Cup on May 12.