Daniel Wales and Charles Hague-Jones look back at Bristol Rovers’ latest win.
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00:00Dan, looking at Bristol Rovers, now obviously Inigo Calderon coming in and not quite getting
00:09that manager bounce straight away, but he has sort of got his first win in a real struggling
00:17table for them this season in League One. They have sort of just got out of the relegation
00:22zone with it as well, five points clear of Crawley as we speak. I mean, what sort of
00:26boost will that give Bristol Rovers ahead of the rest of this campaign? It's such a
00:31tough division this year with the likes of Birmingham City in there, Huddersfield, Reading,
00:36Barnsley, there's some big sides in there really that are all sort of championship outfits.
00:41Obviously, Shrewsbury Town just below them as well having a real bounce as well and looking
00:46to get straight out of it as well. So, it's quite competitive down the bottom of League
00:50One as well. How do they look to push on after this first win?
00:54Well, it's just that they've got to win, to be honest. That's really important for them
01:01because under Inigo Calderon, they hadn't, as you say there, had that new manager bounce.
01:05It had been a real struggle for them. They'd put in better performances, they'd been scoring some
01:09goals, but ultimately that win had still evaded them. You think of a 3-2 loss against Leighton
01:15Orient, for example. So, it showed that there were green shoots there, there were signs of
01:19positivity, but ultimately the three points were still not quite there. But it's come this time
01:24away at Cambridge United, Luke Thomas getting the goal and that's really important for them,
01:31just for confidence reasons, just for a bit of feel-good factor out the club because even though
01:36the new manager had come in, as I say there, they were still struggling and nothing had
01:41massively changed results-wise and that was the real issue. Performances can be as good as you
01:44want if you're not picking up the results, it doesn't really matter. But the result has finally
01:49come and you've just got to hope for them that it sets a new precedent at the club because
01:54it has been a struggle this season and you're right there. There are some really, really good
01:59sides in League One and Bristol Rovers, you know, no disrespect to them, but they are a bit of a
02:06small fish in a big pond, given some of the relative spending power, I think, is the best way
02:11of putting it in terms of other clubs and the experience that other clubs have had at higher
02:16levels of English football as well, albeit years gone by, but just that know-how and Bristol Rovers
02:23haven't really had that because they're coming up from League Two in the last couple of years and
02:28trying to establish themselves as a League One club and, of course, survival
02:33happened last year, it's going to be a struggle again this year, but if they can do it, it'll be
02:38a real achievement for them and you've just got to hope that that win gives them, the players,
02:43the staff, everyone around the club the boost that they need to kick on and start picking up
02:48results here and there. They're hoping for what's got to improve, but that's a really good away win
02:53against Cambridge United.