I was in the stands for the Northampton game on Saturday because I had an incident in training. I was taking on one of the boys when Loick Pires came in from behind for the ball and accidently caught me.
Actually, I had caught Dean Morgan in training the Friday before, which is why he missed the Colchester game. Then, I went in for a block tackle, which means no contact, and he fell on his ankle, and I then fell on him. So I guess that’s karma!
Thankfully, I haven’t had many injuries and hopefully I can shake it off and be fit for Millwall and, if not that, then Huddesfield.
It’s not to do with the training itself. This time of year the pitches are a bit crispy and this sort of thing is bound to happen. There’s a bit of fatigue kicking in and, if you’re not careful, these things happen.
We know our job is not done, no matter what you say about us being safe now.
Northampton was a hard game, according to some of the boys.
It was horrible to be watching from the sidelines, nobody wants to be left watching because of injury or having being dropped. But I wanted to be there and support the lads, and I have to say I thought the performance was alright. There were not many blunders. But we cannot rest on our laurels and we want to get six points out of the final two games.
The gaffer said that a couple of the lads thought the job was done. He’s had a word with us and everyone is going to be bang up for Millwall on Saturday.
That will be a massive game. It’s a derby, it’s a big stadium to go to, and we want to show how strong we are now. It would be nice to get those points and push up the table.
It can be an intimidating place. I was a sub there two years ago and got a bit of banter and abuse from some fans who thought they could scare the players.
Let’s be honest, if their fans wanted to riot against the stewards and get to us, they could do. Shouting at people is the buzz of the weekend for some fans, so you just laugh it off. We don’t get intimidated by it. You learn to be professional and not to give it back, even though it’s tempting.
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