Garry Thompson believes he has every chance of starting against Crawley Town on Saturday after netting in Wycombe Wanderers’ final pre-season game.

Chairboys manager Gareth Ainsworth goes into the first game of League Two with a plethora of options in attack.

Dayle Southwell, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Paris Cowan-Hall and Myles Weston have added to Paul Hayes and Thompson as players who can operate up front.

The competition for a starting berth may have intensified, but Thompson is confident he will feature highly in his managers thinking at Broadfield Stadium.

“It is not my decision at the end of the day and it is down to the gaffer. I feel I have done myself no harm by the way I have played and trained in pre-season,” Thompson said after scoring in the 4-1 win at Maidenhead.

“It is the gaffer’s job to pick the team and we have a great squad of lads to pick from. I would like to think I have done everything I can to be in and around that starting XI.

“It is all about competition and making sure you print on the gaffer’s mind that you want to play on Saturday.”

A brief glance at last season’s League Two table is enough to show Wanderers lacked in the goal department.

With eight Thompson was the club’s top scoring striker, and the Blues will surely need a more prolific output if they are to prosper in 2016/17.

The glut of new additions should help facilitate this and Thompson has been impressed by the options at Wycombe’s disposal.

“Dayle [Southwell] has been very good, with Bayo coming in, and Paris and Westy can play up there as well, so there is lots of competition,” he said.

“It will be good going into the season knowing the gaffer will have a headache picking his team.

“It is all building up and we have a great squad. Like the gaffer said, it is stronger than we had last season.

“This year, with the squad we have got, we will have a strong bench and hopefully we can mount a good challenge.”

That challenge starts with the trip to Crawley Town where Wanderers will come up against a side looking to improve on a poor showing last season.

Thompson feels Crawley will offer a different proposition to the team who struggled to a 20th place finish last season.

He explained: “They are an unknown quantity. They have brought in a lot of players and they will have a bigger squad than us to choose from, but it is about what we do.”