Tuesday 26 February 2008
Coca-Cola Football League 2
Bradford City vs Rotherham United

A warm welcome to Mark Robins, his players, staff and the supporters from Rotherham United to tonight's game.

It's one we are all looking forward to and I'm sure there will be a great atmosphere in the stadium with it being a Yorkshire derby.

Rotherham will be a tough test for us because they are going well this season and have some good players.

They are obviously facing difficult times at the moment off the field but I don't think that really affects the players. They've had a bit of a sticky patch but scored three again on Saturday and will want to follow that up tonight.

When you look at the stats for this league, there have been something like 20 more away victories than home which is astounding. But we've got to make sure we can redress the balance with that.

After two disappointing home defeats, we want to put a win on the board here and hopefully we can carry on the good work from Notts County.

I was pleased with our all-round performance on Saturday. The last 30 minutes was obviously the icing on the cake with scoring three good goals and playing some very good football.

But I also thought we defended strongly and battled hard against a side fighting for their lives at the bottom of the table.

We knew it would be a scrap down there, particularly on a difficult pitch. If you look at Notts County's recent run they have not been conceding goals since we beat them here and have become hard to break down.

You can't play free-flowing football all the time and at half-time, I wasn't surprised how the game was panning out.

I wasn't over-disappointed but felt that we could do a bit more. I thought at the time that the next goal might win it, so to go behind and then come back to win showed good fightback qualities and I was delighted.

As I keep saying, it's all about consistency both as an individual and collectively as a team. It's no good players producing eight or nine out of ten performances one week and then only fives the next.

We know what we are capable of and have shown that. But it's no good just doing it for half an hour here or there - I want to see that from now until the end of the season.

Remember we are all one team so get behind the lads.

Enjoy the game