Ward remains positive about his side's prospects for further improvement after watching them extend their unbeaten run to four games with a 1-1 draw against Bury at the Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Ward watched his side pegged back by a 36th-minute goal by Bury striker Danny Hylton after they had taken an early lead courtesy of John-Joe O'Toole's spot-kick. Ward said: "I am really pleased. Don't get me wrong. I want to win every game and I make no bones about that, but I am also a realist and I know the situation that this football club is in at the minute. We are working with young people and we are trying really hard. As long as I get the effort I demand from the players, I am fine. I was disappointed with the way they played in the first half, but they picked up after the break and that shows me they are listening and they are learning and they are trying really hard. I don't expect miracles because they don't happen in real life. You have to work hard for anything you want to get and I have a group of boys more than willing to do that, and that has to be the first criteria we put together on the football pitch." Rovers have now claimed one win and three draws since they last lost at Accrington Stanley on October 22 and Ward said: "It depends on how you want to look at it. You can say we have won one game in three or four or whatever it is or you can say we are four games unbeaten. You can work things out how you wish. You can be as happy or as miserable as you want to be. We have four games without defeat and we are getting stronger and better and we now have to see if we can keep getting better and improving in the next couple of games." Ward admitted he had been disappointed by his side's display in a first half throughout which Bury were the better team, but commended his players for a markedly improved second-half display in a game that he said a draw was probably a fair result. Ward said: "It is what it is. We got a lovely start by scoring the penalty in the first few minutes, but then we were on the back foot throughout the first half. I don't know whether the early goal caused a bit of complacency, but that was the way it looked. We were possibly fortunate to be level at half-time, but we regrouped and went on to be the better side in the second half." Taken from the post..... http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/John-W...hful-Bristol/story-20093369-detail/story.html
