'˜Special spirit' can keep Town going

Rosler’s men reached that milestone with last weekend’s 1-1 home draw with Southend, a result which stretched their unbeaten run in League One to 12 games and consolidated fourth place in the table.

And as they head south to face play-off rivals Charlton on Saturday, Rosler stressed the importance of his men recovering from a brutal seven- match January.

The German says that draw with the Shrimpers, in which striker David Ball curled in a late equaliser, made a strong statement.

Rosler said: “I think it is important now that we recover well. “We now have two weeks with no midweek games before we go again into a block of tough games.

“It is a little bit to early to say but what I can tell you is that there is a special atmosphere here, a special spirit in our group. “That makes me absolutely confident that after reaching our first league target of the season we are not stopping and will go from strength-to-strength.

“Where that takes us I don’t know? But we are looking good coming away with that point against a very good team – that is a statement.

“The key was that we could not physically compete (against Southend).

“We were second best in every 50/50 ball, took too long on the ball, took too many touches on the ball and lost the ball most of the time in the first half.

“On our decision-making we were too slow and not accurate enough. That all comes not through a lack of effort or attitude . bit through the amount of games and minutes we have played.

“The way we came back was a massive statement for me as a coach because that was an unbelievable effort.

“The mentality in our group is unbelievable.”

n Town goalkeeper Matt Urwin has joined National North club AFC Telford on loan for the rest of the season.

The 23-year-old moved to Highbury from AFC Fylde last summer and could soon face his former club – Telford visit the Coasters’ Mill Farm stadium on Saturday week.