A good point last night against an impressive and hard-working Rotherham side maintains Johnnie Jackson's unbeaten start as Caretaker Manager. This was a game we would have lost by several goals under Nigel Adkins.
Rotherham showed their ambition and determination from the first whistle. Piling forward in numbers, supporting the man on the ball and getting shots and crosses in whenever they could. Our back four and George Dobson were worked hard keeping them at bay although MacGillivray didn't have too much to do. They headed wide, missed the post and were generally just a yard short until the 45th minute.
In the meantime, we got forward when we could and had a couple of half-chances to match Rotherham's. On the stroke of half-time though, they forced a throw-in deep down our left. The throw hardly passed the guy's head and he was a couple of yards from the line when he took it which somehow made it long more wrong. However, it was picked up and hoisted high to the back post where Smith knocked it down into the six yard area for Miller to lash high into our net with his left.
After the break the game moved towards us and we had the balance of attacking play although not with the cohesive and fluency that the Millers Millers managed in the first-half. We were getting more men forward and some fine inter-passing on the run threatened a goal. With ten minutes left it looked like we might come up short but that battler Conor Washington wasn't having it. He chased a ball over the top which he looked second-favourite to get but muscled his way onto the ball and shaped a shot from twenty yards which look an early deflection off the blocking centre-half and flew in low to the keepers' right.
Jackson was rightly proud of his side after the game and so were the fans in the 12,500 crowd which was notably light on attendees. Keep battling, keep picking up points and they will come...
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