TRANMERE Rovers players are setting themselves a points target to put their season back on an upward course in December – and earn an extra day off.
Rovers are looking for a change in fortunes when they make a belated start to this month’s fixtures with a home game against MK Dons this Saturday afternoon.
November brought little but gloom in terms of results, with Les Parry’s team taking just one out of 12 npower League One points at stake and making exits from the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy and the FA Cup.
But Tranmere are hopeful that a good return from four League One games in December can take them back into contention with the teams in the play-off places. Manager Parry said: “We are setting a target for December.
“At the beginning of each month we put the games on the board and let the lads set a target of points. Then I persuade them to agree to my target!
“If they hit the target they get a Monday off of their choice during the following month.
“It is a little bit of a carrot and a little bit of fun but the lads take it seriously.
“So far we have hit the target in two months and missed it in two. Hopefully, with the way the pattern is going, we should hit it in December.”
Sequences of good results in August and October followed by disappointing returns in September and November left Tranmere in mid-table, five points adrift of sixth placed Notts County and out of all three cup competitions as they approach the season’s halfway mark at the end of this month.
