The Swans have the chance to put behind them the poor performance of Wednesday night when Bristol Rovers visit the Vetch on Saturday afternoon in what promises to be a cracking encounter in front of a near full house at the Vetch.

Around 1000 Gas Heads are expected to make the trip across the Severn Bridge to watch the game that pits the third placed Swans against fifth placed Rovers.

Just three years ago this very fixture was watched by less than 3,000 people - a figure that will be more than tripled this time around as the two best supported teams in the division go head to head.

Kenny Jackett will be keen to put behind him the performance of Wednesday that saw his team lose any direction very early on and crash out of the LDV Vans Trophy - 24 hours before Bristol Rovers advanced to the last 8 of the Southern Section.

Last time around at the Vetch it was a 0-0 draw between the two sides - something that seems unlikely to be repeated this time especially with Rovers, and Junior Agogo in particular being in good goalscoring form.

Swansea will very likely be without Andy Robinson who is rated 50/50 at best for the fixture and seems unlikely to be risked leaving the choice on left midfield between Leon Britton and Brad Maylett. It remains to be seen whether Izzy Iriekpen will be recalled to the starting line up after 45 minutes at Wycombe but it is expected that Andy Gurney will return meaning that Alan Tate will be the likely one to miss out. Kenny Jackett is rumoured to be looking at Steve Claridge to bolster his attack but it seems almost certain that Paul Connor will start alongside Lee Trundle up front with both players searching for a vein of goalscoring form.

Bristol Rovers fought back from 2 goals down last week against Boston to salvage a point in the last minute meaning that they come into this game with confidence high and looking to end a Swansea run that has seen them win 6 straight at the Vetch without conceding a goal. With both Jamie Forrester and Lee Thorpe scoring in the midweek LDV win, manager Ian Atkins has a few selection headaches of the nice variety ahead of the game.

It promises to be the best atmosphere of the season to date at the Vetch and back to some of the good old days of big away supports which quite often lifts our own crowd to crank up the noise. The Swans will need to be near their best if they are to pick up the desired result from this game so fingers crossed and get behind the lads

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