Rovers assistant Richard O'Kelly insists there no panic at The Keepmoat

Rovers find themselves in 17th spot and just four points clear of third-bottom Reading, after the Royals' 2-1 win at the Keepmoat Stadium.

Rovers No 2 Richard O'Kelly had warned in the build-up that Reading were in a false position.

"They aren 't a bottom-three side," he argued. "If you look at the teams they've played and you look at the players on the bench a lot of them have been there and done it.

"They had to work hard in the first half when we had a lot of the ball and all credit to them, they did."

Despite the fact that Rovers trailed 1-0 at the break, O'Kelly said that there was no panic in the dressing room.

He said: "We didn't think that there was a great deal wrong at half-time.

"What we needed to do was to keep the belief in what we were doing.That's a difficult thing to do when you are a goal down after being the better side.

"We did that really well last season when we were going through a bad spell in terms of results. We've just got to keep working at it with the group of players we've got this season; they are a good bunch.

"You have always got a chance just one goal down and we showed that at the end when we finished the game very strongly.

"The middle part of the second half was probably the poorest part of the game for us.

"We put a couple of subs on to try and change it around but unfortunately they got a second goal.

"But we picked it up and got a goal back from the penalty spot and it was all us for the last bit.

"Their keeper made a couple of brilliant saves and we hit the crossbar and we also had a couple of goalmouth scrambles."

Defender Shelton Martis was substituted midway through the second half of an impressive debut , but the feeling in the Rovers camp after the game was that he would be available for tomorrow's trip to the Walkers Stadium.