ANTHONY Straker is unlikely to start for Aldershot at his old club York City tomorrow.

The 28-year-old, ex-City winger, who has been playing as a left back for the Hampshire outfit this season, lost his place to former Whitehawk defender Nick Arnold during last weekend’s 3-0 home victory over Gateshead.

Straker has made nine appearances for the Shots this season, including seven starts.

He had made the first XI for the two games prior to the Gateshead clash, but was not even named in the 16-strong matchday squad against Neil Aspin’s Heed side.

Straker is in his second spell with Aldershot, who he has made 231 appearances for in total, having won the Conference title with the Recreation Ground side in 2008 when current boss Gary Waddock was in charge - he also returned to the club this summer.

Since netting for Southend in the 2014 Sky Bet League Two semi-finals, however, Straker has not scored in 51 appearances for four different teams – City, Motherwell, Grimsby and Aldershot.

He made 27 outings for the Minstermen in an 18-month spell before being released in January by Jackie McNamara.

Despite being left out completely against Gateshead, Straker could earn a reprieve in North Yorkshire, though, with Waddock regularly rotating his squad this season.

Aldershot have not named an unchanged side once in 2016/17 and right-back Cheye Alexander, centre-half Callum Reynolds and striker Matt McClure are the only ever presents.

Ex-Wycombe attacker McClure is the club’s joint top-scorer on three goals, along with winger Bernard Mensah and one-time Cambridge forward Scott Rendell, who was an unused substitute last weekend.

Winger Mensah returned for that match after a three-game absence due to injury as Waddock switched to a 4-2-3-1 formation and the Shots now have a fully-fit squad.

The visitors will arrive in North Yorkshire unbeaten in seven games – their longest run without defeat since 2012.

The sequence includes four victories, but the Shots have only won one away game all season – at Dover in August.

Home form, though, has helped lift the visitors to eighth in the National League standings – just one point off the play-off pace.

Aldershot (probable): Cole, Alexander, Evans, Reynolds, Arnold, Bellamy, Gallagher, Mensah, Fenelon, Allen, McClure.