Boss Roy Keane says he is confident that David Healy’s equaliser in Town’s 1-1 draw at Scunthorpe is just the first of many goals from the Northern Irishman. Healy netted after Cliff Byrne had put the Iron in front during the second half at Glanford Park.
Keane said: "It was a real poacher's goal from David and he is capable of that. All good goalscorers score a majority of their goals around the six-yard box.
"He has been disappointed not to have started more games but he has looked sharp in training and I felt that one of our subs would make an impact and David did.
"He's been unfortunate not to score one or two for Sunderland, I've seen incidents where he's been unlucky.
"I think once a goalscorer, always a goalscorer and I think he probably just needs a run of games.
"He's got a decent goal record. Obviously you look at what happened with him at Fulham and Sunderland and sometimes for a striker it doesn't work at a club.
"I've known David from my younger days at Manchester United and he's a goalscorer, you try and find the right level and he's just come a little bit short in the Premiership, but that's no insult to any goalscorer.
"He will probably say he's also not had a run of games. Listen, if you've scored that amount at international level it says a lot about you.
The Blues boss admitted that he was concerned when the home side went in front: "When they got the goal up you thought it was going to be a long battle back. I think we maybe got a little bit of luck with the goal, I don't know but we certainly had chances in the second half.
"Nobody thought it was going to be a classic and when you go one down, we didn't look particularly dangerous in the second half, so we'll take the draw and obviously it stops the opposition from getting maximum points, so it keeps them round and about us.
"Seven points from the four successive away games is a decent return."
Nigel Adkins felt his Scunthorpe side put in a determined display: "The lads have showed another string to their bow in terms of their grit and attitude and the way they adapted to the conditions, they did that very well.
"We've targeted games to win and we were after the three points but the big thing is we've taken something out of the game against a team that is in and around us."