|
" It was nice to get on the scoresheet again at Hartlepool. I feel I've been playing well, even though I hadn't been scoring, so it was nice to get one. Now, hopefully, I can push on and get a few more over the coming weeks. I feel I've been involved in a lot of the goals we've been creating and I get just as much joy from setting up goals, but it was still a relief when one went in.
" Every striker goes through droughts - although that was one of the longest ones I've ever had. But the gaffer (Paul Trollope) kept telling me that I was playing well and just to keep going. I was glad to repay him for his faith in me and hopefully I can score some more now. I'll take any goal, however they come - off my shin, head or knee. I don't mind.
" John Akinde has been going through the same thing I was, but I have told him just to keep going and it will come for him. He has come in and worked hard, he's only a young lad and once one goes in for him, I think he will go on a little run.
" We were happy with the way we fought back at Hartlepool, but unhappy with the way we'd gone 2-0 down in the first place. We just couldn't seem to get going. We left it late, but if the game had gone on for another ten minutes, I think we would have gone on to get the winner. I think that shows the fitness of the squad.
" The division is so tight. We are still only three points off second place and it's relatively early days, so there's no point really looking at the table until about January, when you have more idea about which teams are going to be pushing for promotion.
" Any team which can put a run together can be right up there. We haven't played a lot of the top teams yet, but anyone can beat anyone on their day in this league. Hopefully it will be our day when we play them. "
In team news for Rovers tomorrow, they are long-term injury free ahead of the match and they have only two slight player doubts in the whole of their squad. Former Rotherham and Watford striker Will Hoskins having missed training at the start of the week with a virus, while teenage ex-Charlton midfielder Harry Pell picked up a slight knock in a 1-1 reserve team friendly at Hereford United on Thursday afternoon.
The referee for tomorrow afternoon's match is Oliver Langford from Wednesbury in the West Midlands, and he will be assisted down the lines by Stephen Martin from Stafford and Tim Wood from Gloucester. Meanwhile the fourth official is Slovakian-born female whistler Sasa Ihringova from Telford in Shropshire.