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Rob Hulse won’t press panic button as Lions fail to roar
ROB HULSE refused to be too downbeat despite Millwall’s 2-1 defeat by Blackpool handing them their fourth straight league loss.
Kenny Jackett’s side are now six points off the play-off places. But striker Hulse, above, said: “Everyone is talking about the play-offs but we just need to get a win and get rolling again.”
Hulse spent two and a half years at QPR before joining Millwall in January, but is unlikely to return to Loftus Road when his loan spell finishes at the end of this season.
He added: “I only started 12 games at QPR. It is nice to get away and have a fresh start with a good bunch of lads to enjoy my football again.”
Anthony Gerrard was run out of Cardiff with a major question mark over his fitness and professionalism.
But the Huddersfield defender came through with flying colours on both counts to thwart his old club in a 0-0 draw.
Gerrard left Cardiff last summer claiming he had been frozen out. He said manager Malky Mackay made his life hell after he missed the decisive shoot-out penalty in the League Cup final defeat by Liverpool 12 months ago – his last game for the club.
“I still have a lot of friends down at Cardiff, they are workmanlike in their approach and they grind teams down,” said Gerrard.
It is nice to get away and have a fresh start with a good bunch of lads to enjoy my football again
“It’s tough with us battling down at the bottom. We’ve been a bit naive and it has been a learning process. The last two months at Cardiff were awful, I didn’t get a fair crack of the whip and nobody explained why I was left out. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why. I was more than fit.”
But Mackay said: “Anthony was treated fairly. If we were going to move to the next level we needed better players, better professionals.”
Karl Henry believes Wolves would have been pushing for a return to the Premier League if Dean Saunders had been appointed manager sooner.
The Welshman arrived last month and, despite failing to win in five matches, he earned a glowing endorsement from Henry after the 2-2 draw with Leeds.
“The boys like the new manager – had we had him at the start of the season we’d be at the other end of the table,” said Henry.