Good evening and welcome to all supporters to Kenilworth Road for tonight's Blue Square Premier match with Forest Green Rovers.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to David Hockaday, his players and staff, directors and supporters of Forest Green.

It has been a while since our last home fixture which ended in defeat against AFC Wimbledon on 20^th February.

It was a hugely disappointing result - all defeats are, and all defeats hurt - but I thought we did not deserve to be on the losing side following such a performance.

Unfortunately, we failed to take the positives from the game against AFC Wimbledon to Crawley a week later when I thought we let ourselves down.

That ended our fantastic run of results away from Kenilworth Road and with it our record of keeping eight successive clean sheets on the road.

We failed to deal with Crawley's game plan at getting up and at us. The fact they scored from their first shot on goal summed it up.

After we rallied to level things up, for a five minute spell we could have gone on and snatched victory. But it wasn't to be and a contentious free-kick awarded against eventually led to our downfall.

There were no excuses for what was a poor performance - a rarity for us given the record on our travels and thankfully we bounced back from two straight defeats by earning a valuable point from a tough trip to Mansfield last Tuesday.

It was a game that I thought we could have edged and it was frustrating to see a perfectly good goal from Jake Howells harshly ruled out for offside.

To keep a clean sheet at one of our Play-Off rivals was also pleasing all things considered coming off the back off the results against Wimbledon and Crawley.

From Mansfield to Hayes & Yeading where, although we got back to winning ways, I had mixed reactions about.

While it is obviously pleasing to come away from any away match with three points I was angered at our inability to convert our chances into more goals.

The sheer fact that we were holding on to the win in the final minute was farcical. We need be better and, as I have said many, many times before, we need to be putting teams to the sword more convincingly that we are at the moment.

I have challenged the players to score more and improve our goal difference and with a bit of luck and endeavour that will start tonight.

We know Forest Green are capable, just like any side in this division, to cause us problems and we need to be wary that they will raise their game tonight.

We want to get out of this division while they are fighting for the lives to stay in it. Their result against a York side in the mix for promotion along with ourselves on Saturday just goes to show that we cannot afford to underestimate tonight's opponents.

This evening's game is the first of three consecutive home games and with eight of our last 12 games here we have a superb opportunity to further cement our position in the top five.

The sole automatic promotion place might seem a fair distance off but I can assure you we will keep going until it is mathematically impossible not finish there.

You're support has been nothing short of magnificent since I have taken over and, with all these home matches to play, you really can act as our 12^th man.

Enjoy the game.

Richard.