Why last game goals would mean so much
I am desperate to score on Saturday.
There is nothing I would like more than to walk off the pitch at Gresty Road hearing the ?Feed the Goat? song from the travelling fans after scoring a couple of goals against Crewe.
I expect to get some good playing time from the bench in the game and I really want to get on the scoresheet.
The fans have been whispering the song, threatening to sing it but I haven?t had the chance to give them what they wanted. I came here to do a job which was to keep Coventry up and I feel I have played my part.
But when people ask me how many goals I scored to help them, at the moment I have to say ?none?. Which is why I want to put a couple of goals to my name for the club to help round off a successful loan move.
We achieved safety on Saturday with our incredible 6-2 win at home to Derby and it would be a great way for me to round off my time here. I feel a goal has been coming and I want to do it for the fans as much as anything. They have been great to me since I have been here.
Before and after the games they have been really positive and supportive and have thanked for me for coming here and for what I have done for the team and they say I have brought the best out in my team-mates.
And the gaffer has said the same. I really like the way Micky Adams operates. He communicates a lot with you and tells it how it is, good or bad.
He has thanked me for my contribution and said I have helped out the team in getting safety.
It is natural at a club that when a new players comes in, other players raise the stakes a bit.
Particularly with strikers, a new player means the other ones are left thinking ?he has brought this guy in because I am not doing my job?.
That helps a lot and the other strikers here like Macca (Gary McSheffrey), Dele Adebola and Stern John have all got about three goals each in the last few games. I feel that I have contributed to that by being here.
I have really enjoyed my last few weeks here. I have enjoyed training and playing and enjoyed playing a meaningful part in the team.
Running out in front of a noisy crowd chanting your name is a great feeling. I think I forgot the buzz you get from it after a frustrating season at Reading. There were four of five months this season where I didn?t really get that, but now I have got it again it has reminded me how much I love playing football and being involved.
I feel like I have had my batteries recharged and I am really enjoying everything about the game again. It is a shame the season ends this weekend, I would like to keep going for a few more games.
I am not tired like I normally am at this time of the year because I haven?t played as much and I will be disappointed when it all comes to an end on Saturday ? although signing off with some goals would be a great way to go into the summer.
LAST Saturday was a great day but also a bizarre day.
It was the last home game of the season ? which is always a special time ? but more than that it was the last ever game at Highfield Road.
The atmosphere was tremendous and we got a fantastic result, winning 6-2, securing Championship safety and giving the fans some great last memories of the ground.
I wasn?t surprised not to be involved in the game though. I knew I?d start on the bench because the gaffer wasn?t going to change a winning team and once we went 4-0 up, I knew I definitely wasn?t getting on.
There were other players on the bench like Wingy (Andrew Whing) who has been with the club for something like 13 years and he was always going to get on before me.
It was a special day for the players who had been at the club a while, and for a guy who has only been here six weeks to get a game ahead of someone like him would have been unfair ? and I know if it had been the other way around I would have been really gutted.
I celebrated every goal and it was great to be part of the team that secured safety but I did feel a bit awkward at the end.
The players walked around waving at fans and thanking them, but it was hard for me because I didn?t really have a lot to thank them for, having been there for such a short space of time.
It wasn?t really my party but I could see how much it meant to everyone else, the fans, the management and the other lads in the team.