It's back to the future for Shaun Goater as he attempts to rediscover his goalscoring form.

The Bermudian striker, who plays for English First Division club Reading, has scored four times since moving from Manchester City in the summer.

However, those goals came in the first six games of the season and he has been unable to find the net in the last five.

In that time Reading have slipped from second in the table to 12th.

Losing manager Alan Pardew last month has not helped their situation and failing to name a replacement until yesterday when Steve Coppell was confirmed as the new man in charge may also have hindered their progress.

But Goater realises that behind-the-scenes problems cannot be allowed to interfere with matters on the pitch and with that in mind he is looking at his own game, and in particular the style that took him to prominence, in the hope of helping to turn around the club's fortunes.

"I thought I would have a lot more opportunities having moved down to Division One," he said. "I have also found that we don't have players that can give that killer pass or that pass that allows me to make through runs. We don't, at this moment, have players that look for that pass.

"So I have got to get back to the time when I was at Rotherham and Bristol City and I didn't have that kind of supply. I have to work with what I have got and get the goals like I did then. It's a case of `this is what we have got here' and working with that."