Joey Barton isn’t paying too much attention to where Bristol Rovers are in the League One standings given how early it is in the season and the number of first-team players he’s been without for much of the opening nine games of the campaign.
Rovers’ humbling 6-3 loss at the hands of Lincoln City on Saturday sent them falling into 21st in the table, following a run of six games without a win, and the Gas are just four points ahead of bottom side Burton Albion.
But equally Rovers are four behind a clutch of teams sitting in mid-table and with 37 games remaining, the manager is confident much can and hopefully will change and too much can be read into where they’re positioned, ignoring some of the context as to how they ended up there.
