Striker Jason Scotland has revealed how Town’s storming second-half recovery at Barnsley last week instantly worked wonders for dressing room harmony.

He first noticed it on the bus journey home from Yorkshire and said the upbeat mood, not surprisingly, had also contributed to a more positive atmosphere on the training ground in the build-up to tomorrow’s home clash with Derby County.

Although keen to play down his own performance against the Tykes, Scotland, 32, was among the goalscorers at Oakwell as Paul Jewell’s men, who trailed 2-0 at the interval, netted five times and eventually ended a run of seven league defeats on the spin with a stunning 5-3 victory.

The Trinidad & Tobago star said: “When you are winning games it can have a big effect and the trip home on the bus was so much different to previous away games when we lost.

“It was happy and bubbly but when you have lost you will have some players swearing at others and generally people are not happy with each other. We don’t take defeats well and when it was seven in a row it made it all the worse to take.

“Players will point out mistakes that others might have made. I’m only using Carlos [Edwards] as an example but people would say ‘You were supposed to be marking their guy who scored with a header’ and stuff like that.

“There has been a more positive feeling this week in training and we hope to start up against Derby where we left off against Barnsley. We did not play well in the first half but if we can repeat the way we played in the second everyone will be very happy.”

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Karlosfandangal added 21:49 - Dec 16 bring back Tommy Miller as he always got slagged off, at least Edwards would get a break, O no forgot we have Richard Wright. Sell Scotland he's S@@t and fat and over 30, O no he's Man of the Match now and worth a new contract. Make your minds up you so called fans
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buryblue77 added 09:23 - Dec 17 Can't believe I agree with llewej tuo about something, but he's right. There are several who make ridiculous errors, including the player who appears to many to be the new messiah, Keith Andrews, who is a good goal scoring midfielder but gives the ball away too often and Sonko for when someone gets the beating of him he doesn't seem to be able to deal with it. Yet I am possibly going to get critisied for a negative comment because it's obvious that one big second half has completely changed our season and all has been forgotten. The one thing you're not allowed to do on here is moan, so I'm not. I'm basically pointing out fact! COYB!!!!

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