Gas looking for a Shot of confidence

Bristol Rovers take on Aldershot tomorrow at the Mem with manager Paul Buckle hoping that his side can build on Tuesday's win over Shrewsbury to get a little momentum going.

This will be my first trip to the Memorial Ground this season and Buckle has told the Bristol Evening Post: "Confidence plays a huge part and the win on Tuesday lifted everybody. We had felt hard done by in recent games, but we got our reward the other night. Now we have something to build on. We have only lost two league games and the table has become very tight."

We let ourselves down at Crawley by not defending our 18-yard box properly, but we did it at Bradford last weekend and we did it again on Tuesday. We looked strong and for all the ball Shrewsbury had, they never really hurt us. We have worked on clearing our lines.

Against Aldershot we have to try and get the first goal, because if we do that, teams have got to come at us and it leaves them susceptible on the break. Aldershot have just come off the back of a 2-0 away win and they will be confident. I think they will play open football and come to try and win the game."

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Aldershot are only one point behind Rovers in the table, although at this stage of the season every team is within touching season of each other of course.

Current Shots's boss and former PFA chairman Dean Holdsworth is slowly making a name for himself in the world of football management and so despite the club's unfashionable label, Rovers need to treat this fixture with caution.

He steered Newport to promotion to the Conference National in 2010 and was then snapped up by relegation threatened Aldershot in January of this year. The club then lost only four games to move from 20th to the safety of a 14th place finish.

The former Crazy Gang member played nearly 200 games for Wimbledon as a striker and combined his post-playing, per-management days with a string of reality TV appearances. As Aldershot lie only just behind Rovers in the table and within spitting distance of the play-off places, he is unlikely to be 'voted off' by the Recreation Ground faithful just yet.