Source: FOOTYMAD
Rovers John Oster- We have to have high aspirations
Rovers midfielder John Oster has challenged the club to get back on track at home to Millwall on Saturday Former Royals playmaker Oster impressed at the weekend against his old club but Rovers let slip a healthy 3-1 lead in a dramatic 4-3 defeat away to Reading at the Madejski Stadium.The visitors deserved a point for their efforts having battled back from a goal down, but some "sloppy" defending from Rovers according to Oster led to the club's second defeat in three games."We have to have high aspirations for the season," said Oster. "This league is so tight. There's no consistency in any of the teams play at the moment, there's only Cardiff and QPR who are at the top of the league because they've been consistently winning games."It's difficult at the minute to put your finger on why we're not winning back-to-back, but we'll have a look at it and try and put things right. We should have beaten Reading."It's now 23 games without back-to-back victories for Sean O'Driscoll's ambitious side.When Rovers led 3-1 and 3-2 they were placed in sixth position in the table, but a 4-3 defeat saw them end the weekend down in 15th."It's mad at the minute," added Oster. "Everyone is beating each other. We just need to find that consistency in our play. As soon as we do that I've got no doubts we'll be climbing the table."We did brilliantly to get back into the game after a bad start, so it was disappointing to lose."At 3-1 ahead we should have killed the game off and it's only naivety on our part that we've lost the game in the end. We've got to look at ourselves at what we did wrong. They didn't do anything amazing, it was just sloppy from out point of view."Even when they got back to 3-3 we should have held on and made sure we got something from the game. We need to address the problems we've got sooner rather than later if we want to go anywhere in this division."Oster is confident Rovers can still pick up points even without leading scorer Billy Sharp sidelined for anywhere up for two months with a hamstring injury."One man doesn't win games for you," stressed Oster. "You need a collective 11 players.We showed that against Reading in spells, whoever comes in his chipping in."
