Kyle Lightbourne has admitted his personal goal drought is starting to bother him.

But he reckons that once he nets his first goal for his new club Macclesfield Town, the floodgates will open.

The Bermudian striker has played in all of the Silkmen's seven matches this season since joining the Third Division side on a free transfer from Stoke City just before the start of the season, but has yet to find the net.

"As a striker, you want to be scoring goals," Lightbourne told The Royal Gazette. "I haven't scored one yet and it is starting to play on my mind a bit.

"I have gone close on a number of occasions and I've had a hand in a lot of the goals we have scored. I think it's a just a matter of getting that first goal and then they will start to go in for me.

"In our last game (0-0 draw at Halifax), I had one chance in the first two minutes of the game and the goalkeeper pushed it away for a corner.

"I've hit the target with most of the chances I've had, but the goalkeepers keep saving it. Against Bradford in the League Cup, I had two chances, the keeper made a good save from one and the second was cleared off the line."

Despite the absence of goals, Lightbourne said life at Macclesfield agreed with him and that fans of the Cheshire club had taken to him.

"The fans have been really good," he said. "Even though I haven't scored yet, they keep singing my name and I just want to reward them with a goal."

Lightbourne felt he had spent the first part of the season playing catch-up in terms of gaining match fitness and sharpness, as he missed most of the pre-season training period while he searched for a new club.

"That has been a big problem," said Lightbourne. "I was training on my own and it's not the same as when you're competing against someone and pushing each other on.

"I would say I got about three weeks behind, but now my fitness level is back to more or less 100 percent."

After spending the last few years of his career chasing promotion to the First Division with Stoke City, he has found the game very different in the bottom flight of English professional soccer, where he started his career with Scarborough.

"To be honest, I've found it difficult adjusting back to this division," said Lightbourne. "It's a different style of play, even from the Second Division. You see a lot of long balls, fighting balls.

"The defenders squeeze up a lot more tightly and they push up a lot more to the halfway line. It's more physical and some games we've had have been a bit rough."

Tomorrow, fifth-placed Hull City, who spent around $1.5 million on players during the summer, are the visitors to Macclesfield's Moss Rose ground.

Tigers manager Brian Little was Lightbourne's former boss at Stoke, but the striker said he didn't feel any great desire to put one over his ex-boss.

"There's no animosity between Brian and myself," said Lightbourne. "I know he thinks a lot of me because we spoke in the summer and he wanted to sign me.

"I hope this will be more of a footballing game than usual. Our manager Gil Prescott likes us to keep the ball on the floor and so does Brian Little.

"Hull are a big club in the Third Division and all the pressure is on them. People expect them to get promotion, while our aim is really to get to the play-offs."

Macclesfield go into tomorrow's match in 17th place in the 24-club Third Division and will be seeking their second win of the season.