Striker happy with his lot

AARON AMADI-HOLLOWAY . . . the forward is without a goal in 14 games since January.

AARON Amadi-Holloway is staying relaxed about his lack of goals, as long as he continues adding plenty to Athletic's cause in other ways.

The 24-year-old striker was in terrific form against Fleetwood and his former manager Uwe Rosler, who he fell out of favour with earlier this season before making a move to SportsDirect.com Park.

PROVIDING

Amadi-Holloway has gone 14 games without scoring since his January move. In providing a foil for fellow front man Lee Erwin, who has five goals in seven outings, the former Wycombe man has been a valuable addition for boss John Sheridan to help Athletic as they try to ease themselves out of relegation trouble.

"I'm happy with my performances," said Amadi-Holloway. "Yes, I would like to get some goals, but as long as I chip in to help the team then I am quite happy.

"If we keep these performances going, then the points will come for us.

"We will keep grinding it out."

Like his manager Sheridan, Amadi-Holloway is bullish about Athletic's chances of making it back-to-back wins at home when second-placed Bolton visit on Saturday.

"We have played them before and they are a good team, but I think we can beat anyone in this division and I'm confident we can get the three points again," he said.

"It's a massive game for us. We knew that three points against Fleetwood was vital, as is every point now.

"We will take it easy now and then look to really get stuck into them on Saturday."

Resting up is key for Amadi-Holloway, who revealed that his hamstring problem meant he could only train once before taking to the field against Fleetwood. He then lasted an hour before coming off again.

"It's nothing major, but it's what I came off with a couple of weeks ago," he said, referring back to a problem which started in the 1-1 draw at Peterborough on March 18.

'TRAINED'

"It was a bit of a risk coming in so early, as I had only trained once, but it was worth it to play and help the team get three points."

Athletic will have a vote next month on whether to revise the format of the Checkatrade Trophy, or to scrap the competition altogether.

EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey spelled out the options at a meeting of League One and League Two clubs yesterday. His preference a continuation of this season's 64-team competition involving 16 category one academy sides.

Tweaks to existing rules being looked at include relaxing the number of changes EFL clubs can make to their teams, adding money to the prize fund and keeping the competition regional up to the quarter-final stage.

Athletic reached the last 16 of this season's competition before losing 2-0 at Mansfield.

"I'm delighted we were able to have such a full and frank exchange of views that will now assist the executive in refining a final proposal that our clubs will now vote on," said Harvey.