"The lads are good honest professionals, who are big enough to accept criticism when the fail to perform. Things needed to be said, but once that was out of the way there were a lot of positives to talk about.
"Our home form has been good and our destiny is still in our own hands. We will be working on things to make sure we can play our football under pressure on Saturday and our fans will be right up for it."There will be 19,000 of them and noise they make, knowing the size of the prize at stake, will be very important to us. Those who went to Millwall had a dreadful day from start to finish for one reason or another and we want to make it up to them.
"If I had a crystal ball and knew we were going up, I would much rather clinch promotion at a packed Ashton Gate than away from home with half our fans unable to see the whole game.
"Perhaps our players were suprised by Millwall's attitude to the game because they played as if something was at stake for them. We need to show Rotherham respect because they will have some enthusiastic youngsters looking to force their way into the plans of a new manager.
"But we helped Millwall by not being at our best and failing to take our chances. Jamie McCombe knows he should have scored at 0-0 and if he had it might have been a totally different story.
"If we play our game on Saturday we have a great chance of coming out on top and achieving our objective. That's what we will be impressing on the players because we are not in such a good position by accident.
"I hope our fans can enjoy the build-up to the game this week because it is such an exciting prospect. Having said that, it can't come soon enough for me."