by Paul Williams

I must admit I’ve never set foot in Peterborough. It was always the stop between Stevenage and Grantham on the East Coast line as far as I was concerned so my view of the town has been limited to one from a train window. But I understand the away end of football ground is of a type than can generate a bit of atmosphere so I’m sure travelling fans will be getting behind the lads this weekend.

Publicly, Darren Ferguson has described this Saturday’s fixture at Peterborough as ‘just another game’. However, privately, the new Rovers manager would probably like nothing better than to put one over the club that sacked him earlier this year. Ferguson will know most of the Peterborough players – there hasn’t been that big a turnaround of playing staff at London Road over the last nine months – so should have some idea of their strengths and weaknesses.

Unfortunately, Keshi Anderson has been limping since scoring the winner at Shrewsbury and our joint top scorer may be a doubt for this one. That would probably necessitate a slight tweak to the formation. Luke McCullough is the obvious replacement for the injured Gary Mackenzie but Ferguson has said he will look at the loan market next week to see if he can boost numbers in the defence, which is looking more than a little threadbare.

While we were beating Shrewsbury on Tuesday, Posh were losing at home to Wigan and one of their goalscorers, Erhun Oztumer, is a doubt to face Rovers. They are also without key midfielder Marcus Maddision and several others who would have been in the matchday squad – dare we dream of back-to-back wins?