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Every Monday, Town Captain Gordon Greer talks exclusively to www.swindontownfc.co.uk, giving his views on the weekend's performance and looking forward to the upcoming week at The County Ground......
We had a difficult match on Saturday at Leyton Orient but we were pleased to come away with a 0-0 draw, a good point and most importantly another clean sheet.
The pitch was very difficult to play on, because the amount of rain they've had meant that it had become very boggy, and there was a lot of sand on it like at Stockport which made it very hard to pass the ball properly or build up any momentum when running.
To their credit I think both teams did their best to play football on it, and in the end the pitch proved to be a bit of a leveller as neither side really did enough to win the game.
However we could have won it late on when Billy Paynter went down for what was a certain penalty in mine, and pretty much everyone else in the ground's opinion but the referee's!
The gaffer was angry afterwards as it had cost us three points, but overall I think we were all pleased with a point from what is a very difficult place to go.
On to this weekend, and all the boys are hoping to right a few wrongs from the 3-0 defeat at The Memorial Stadium back in December.
It was probably our worst performance of the season on that day, and I think half an hour of madness saw us go into half time 3-0 down and it was always going to be tough to come back from that.
But we haven't lost a game since then and our performances have improved massively, so we're hoping to prove a point to a lot of people and to ourselves on Saturday by putting on a good performance and getting a result.
We're expecting a decent sized crowd at The County Ground and it will be a pretty good atmosphere I hope. Derby games always produce that sort of thing and it's something you thrive on as a player.
As I said before Rovers are a good side who will take some beating, as they've shown in recent games against Charlton Athletic and Colchester United, but I'm confident that with the quality we've got in the side, andthe run of form we're on at home at the moment we can go out and get a result.
They've got threats all over the pitch that we'll have to be wary of, but so have we and the confidence is high in the squad at the moment with the run of form we're on, so I'm confident we can put on a good performance and come away with the right result on Saturday.
See you there,
Gordon Greer
