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Millers boss Warne still thinking in terms of worst case scenario



Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by PA

Millers boss Warne still thinking in terms of worst case scenario

Rotherham boss Paul Warne has refused to accept his team have booked their play-off place after an impressive 1-0 win at Gillingham.

The Millers moved nine points clear of seventh-placed Plymouth, who have two games in hand, after Will Vaulks’ first-half goal sealed victory in Kent.

It would take an unlikely set of results to see Warne’s men drop out of the top six, but he is not budging in his mindset.

He said: “I think anyone who doesn’t live in my brain thinks we are there but I don’t.

“It’s the pessimism, as a football manager you always think of the worst case scenarios. We will just keep on top of the lads and keep on going through the same processes we go through.

“If we get a win we must be getting close. We feel like we are getting close, I am not that naive.

“I am not Carol Vorderman, but I know how the table works but until we are actually in there we haven’t got anything to celebrate.”

In the end, Vaulks’ low strike in the 20th minute was enough for the points against the Gills, but they squandered a host of opportunities to win far more comfortably.

Ryan Williams missed two golden chances and Michael Smith wasted the best of the lot when he blazed wide from six yards out.

“We played the conditions as well as we could,” Warne added. “We deserved the half-time lead, and we had enough chances in the second half to reduce my heart rate by 50 beats.

“Unfortunately we didn’t take them. I kept think we were going to score but we didn’t get the second goal.

“I think the lads performed really well, it is a difficult place to come.”

After a run of form that saw Gillingham threaten to gatecrash the play-offs in early 2018, they have now gone eight games without a win, losing five of them.

Boss Steve Lovell knows it was not good enough against the Millers.

“We have failed to produce a performance that we did in January and February,” he said.

“I am very disappointed. They are a good side. They remind me of how we were six weeks ago.

“They were hungry and quick and we weren’t. It’s disappointing for the fans, for me as a manager and the players.

“There are three games to go and we have to get some normality on Saturday and give the fans something to cheer.

“When you are going for promotion or the play-offs there is that extra two or three per cent but that shouldn’t happen.

“Our lads are professional and they are paid to entertain.”

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