Another two goals, but in two entirely different games.

Last week we played Grimsby, top of the league not so long ago but who had lost their last six matches, and we beat them 4-0.

I scored after just two minutes when Danny Tiatto crossed and I put the ball in from six yards out. That was my 15th of the season and meant I made the top 20 list of all-time goalscorers at the club.

It was just the start we needed and we got further goals from Steve Howey and Darren Huckerby, who scored two.

Coming off the defeat at Preston made the result all the more important.

If we had lost or not performed well then our fans might have got on our backs, but in the end it was a very pleasing three points.

Our problem this season has been a lack of consistency. We have won games and then lost or drawn and have not found any rhythm, so we hoped that that result might be the start of a good run.

With that in mind we travelled to Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

We didn't lose and I scored but we only came away with a point.

Chris Bart-Williams opened the scoring for Forest in the seventh minute, but just 60 seconds later I equalised.

Forest are at least two levels up from Grimsby in regard to their team. They are a much better side and they played that way on the day.

I thought they dominated possession and if you have got the ball you can dictate the pace of the game and they did that.

Our goal actually came from a mistake they made.

Their goalkeeper, Darren Ward, rolled the ball out for centreback Ricardo Scimeca, but he wasn't really looking.

He ran out wide and the goalkeeper, thinking the defender had the ball, ran back to the goal leaving it behind.

I didn't need a second invitation. I ran to the ball, faked to shoot and took it round the `keeper before tucking it into the net. It was a bizarre goal and the sort you probably get just once in your career.

It was a good job that I scored because we didn't really make opportunities of our own.

Apart from picking the ball out of the net for my goal, I think the goalkeeper only made one or maybe two saves in the whole of the 90 minutes.

The Forest game was a big one for our veteran defender Stuart Pearce, who was a legend in his playing days at Nottingham.

They loved him there and so for him it meant a lot to go back and not lose and put in a good performance.

Unfortunately, because we only drew we missed out on the chance to go fifth in the table and had to be happy with seventh.

By this point in the season I thought we would be hovering around the top four in the division.

But the fact we are not is not necessarily a bad thing. It can wake you up and make you realise just how short you are from becoming a top one or two team.

The most important thing is not to become too far adrift of the leaders, and with that in mind we have to focus on Wolves and make sure they do not get more than three games away from us.

Tomorrow we face Barnsley at their Oakwell ground.

They are down at the bottom and recently fired their manager, Nigel Spackman.

But that doesn't mean the game will be easy.

Sometimes you find that managerless teams put in a great performance. You often find one of their senior players takes over temporarily and it's almost as if the team has nothing to prove, they are relaxed and become very difficult to beat.

I haven't had many games against Barnsley, having only played against them once in a league game and a couple of times in the reserves when I was at Rotherham.

I haven't scored against them either in a first team match, so I'm hoping it will be second time lucky.

Although I have been feeling a pain in my knee in the past two or three days it won't stop me from playing.

We have this game and another on Saturday but then we have a 10-day break and that period will allow me to do some work to strengthen it. I haven't been able to do that recently because the games have been coming thick and fast and you don't want to tire yourself doing weights just before a match.

It is actually the same knee that I had the operation on last season.

Three other players have had the same procedure on their cartilage and each one has had to go back a second time. Paulo Wanchope, Alfie Haaland and Andy Morrison have all had to have a repeat operation.

However, although it's always at the back of your mind I am not in fear of it becoming a bigger problem and will be putting in 100 percent effort tomorrow in the hope of bringing another three points home.