Kieran McKenna

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We're going to another tight stadium with a big atmosphere, against a team fighting for their lives, generally playing well, playing better probably than their league position and their points, and it's gonna be a big challenge.

We've got to recover well, get our energy right and make sure we're ready to go on Tuesday.

For me it doesn't matter whether it's April, whatever it is now, or September, how we operate, we genuinely do just focus on ourselves and the next game.

That's all the chat will be in the group in the next 48 hours.

You know in this division, it's about your consistency and your ability to go again and again and it's never more so on a run like this away from home on Saturday and Tuesday with the run of away games that we have.

The positive for me is that that's how we operate, and that's how we talk all the time.

Of course players enjoyed it on the pitch after and in the dressing room, but by the time they come out of that shower it will be about recovery, eating the right things, sleeping as much as possible and training and preparing well for Tuesday night.

That doesn't change for us now.

Reflecting on the two postponements at Portsmouth, having previously admitted the first was a particular frustration, McKenna added.

I think I've already said that it was, there's no point in going over it now.

It is what it is, it was at the time.

We have the game now it's ahead of us, and I'm pretty sure from the weather forecast we're gonna be good, so we're ready to take it on.

They're a team that we respect, and it's a stadium that we respect because it's a tough place to go and win on a Tuesday night, but it would be a brilliant place to do it so that's what we're gonna try and do.

I think across the season they've generally played really well, he said.

If you look at the statistics they're a lot better than their league position would suggest.

They're capable of playing some really good football.

You'll see that in a lot of their games they have a lot of possession, a lot of shots but not one, and maybe in a couple of recent games they've been a bit more direct and they've got some big targets, so they can go direct and make it that type of game as well.

Going away from home, the league's always tough especially this time of the season when a team's fighting for something so we're going to have to stand up to everything that goes our way and try and find a way to put the best of ourselves in the game as well.

Jacob was there on Saturday but it was just down to squad selection, having Tom back, we obviously decided to go with him it was a decision I made on Saturday morning.