Visit of my home-town club makes match special

The Latics wing wizard writes every week for Chron Sport

We had a bruising game at Doncaster, but I thought we fully deserved to come away with a point.

It was important for the lads to put in a decent performance after what had gone on the previous weekend against Peterborough, and I think fans will have gone home feeling much better, because it wasn’t a bad effort.

We had to defend well. Doncaster are a big side and their chief threat came from set pieces. We had a few scares in the second half, but overall I thought we showed good character.

It would have been easy for some teams to capitulate under that kind of pressure, but our defence, in particular, stood firm.

Jonathan Burn was certainly in the wars. He had a bit of a headache on the way home from the game, and then on Sunday morning his face looked a mess, with a black eye and stitches. It looked awful!

I’m hoping I get picked again tomorrow because Wigan is my home-town club. I don’t live there any more, but most of my family do and I have a lot of friends who are Wigan fans.

It’s going to be a great crowd and a great atmosphere, but I don’t know what I’d do if I scored in front of the Wigan lot. Would I celebrate like mad? I’m not sure – but it would be nice to be put in that position in the first place!

I can’t recall playing against Wigan much at all. I did earlier in my career when I was at City, and I think we did okay against them.

It’s going to be a good derby game tomorrow and having Liam Kelly back in the fold, as well as the three new signings, means the atmosphere in training has been really good.

There is healthy competition for places now and hopefully we can use that to help get on a run of good results.