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" We have had a good journey, we stopped at Peterborough to train, so we trained there for an hour and we have had no setbacks. We have just arrived at the hotel about five minutes ago, it has been a nice one, the weather is lovely and the training facility at Peterborough was excellent, so thanks to them for that and we are looking forward to the game tomorrow.
" Gary (Madine) is chomping at the bit and he needs some games. With our situation the way that it is we are looking at experience and tried and tested. So it is a fantastic opportunity for Gary and good for us that he will be getting his games at the top end of League Two. Hopefully if he is a success then he comes back to us and they (Rochdale) have done a bit of our job for us. So it is a great move for Gary and a good one for us.
" I wouldn't have thought that will leave us a striker short. You see our bench tomorrow and it will contain at least three strikers, it is one area of the pitch where we have got plenty of options. It is an area that because of our situation it has frustrated Gary in his quest to get games. So we have got plenty of striking options there, so the best thing for me at the moment is to have Gary playing and continue his development.
" Joe Anyinsah has got four goals in eight games (ed - three in eight or four in 13), so that is one in two. Joe has got four in eight and Danny (Graham) has got 16 in 35 so that is one in two for Joe and it is over about one in two and a half for Danny Graham. There are not many strike partnerships better than that so we are hoping that they get their scoring boots on and continue that.
" We are looking at Joe and Joe is a threat at the moment, and obviously with Danny, Danny goes in gluts. He can get a goal tomorrow and go on a run again, seven or eight in no time at all. So we want them scoring, whoever it is we want them scoring, but their actual ratios are very, very good. "
" I don't think that you can deflect from the seriousness of the situation that we are in. The fact is that with the results in midweek there is a four point cushion, which isn't much of a cushion. After tomorrow that could be even less or it could be seven, you never know. We have to make sure that the players are aware of the situation without overhyping it and without putting extended pressure on it.
" There has got to be pressure, there is pressure wherever you are in the table but where we are at the moment with the games that we have got to come, we would like to get the points as quickly as we can to get us away from it. Then the players can relax and enjoy their football a little bit more. There is a serious situation at the moment though and the players have got to deal with it and get some results very, very quickly for us.
" We are not bad injury-wise, we are carrying a little bit of walking wounded, but there is nothing there that is going to stop people playing. So we are not bad in that situation, obviously we have got the long-term ones with little Bridgey (Marc Bridge-Wilkinson) and Danny Livesey and Lummy (Chris Lumsdon) who is still not quite right.
" So we are without them but the rest of it, there are little bits of bugs and viruses going around and the little niggles that we have had, but they are all with us. They are all together and we are hoping that together we can select a team from that and get something tomorrow. "
" The loan market is always an option and it is something that we will have a look at. There are three good games for us this week, so we will have a look at the weeks results and then if that is something that we need to do then we will do it. If we sit here with three wins out of three then there is maybe not that need to do that. It is there if we need it though and if we do then we will use it.
" We dropped Cleveland Taylor last week because we pick a team that we think is going to win us the game, it is as simple as that. There are selections made without too much influence on individual players, what we do is that we look at the opposition, we look at what we have got, we look at what we have got available and we select a team. I pick the team to try to win the game and get something out of it, we got a point in the game and that is all that really matters to be honest.
" Everybody talks about 50 points, and if we can get to 50 points then that is all well and good. We just want to get as many as we can, you'd be silly saying that if we don't get any tomorrow then we need this amount of points or that amount of points. We just want to go out and win every game that we can and get as many points as we can to make sure that we are not involved in that.
" If you saying to me what is the figure, everyone looks at 50 so I suppose you would have to use that as a guide, but we would like to think that we can maybe even get some more than that. We are finding them hard to come by a little bit at the minute though so we just to try to amass as many as we can. Starting tomorrow and then we have got a good couple of home games to look forward to and hopefully we can get something tomorrow and set us up for a really good week.
" I don't want to look too much at other people's results. I want us to do our own hard work, we have got to go off the back of the fact that they (Southend) have had a really poor performance in midweek. It will probably be a tense affair, they are now getting to the stage where they can't drop too many points, we are getting to a stage where we can't drop too many points. You are hopeful that the game reflects that and doesn't show too much nerves and tension but shows lots of quality. "