'We can't be...' - Grant McCann desperate for Doncaster Rovers players to improve alarming stat

Rovers head into tonight's home game with Leyton Orient inside the League One relegation places after a torrid few months. A hallmark of their poor form has been points lost from winning positions. That total stands at an alarming 25 points squandered. Last Saturday was a prime example, when they let slip a 3-0 lead against Wigan and had to contend with just a share of the spoils.

"It's a really tough league and we're in nearly every single game," McCann said. "There's been the odd ones - Wigan away, Leyton Orient away, Plymouth at home where we've been nowhere near. But predominantly all the games we've been in with a real chance of winning.

"I asked one of the analysts to do some work on the points that we've dropped from winning positions and we've dropped 25 points which is something we have to get better at.

"We can't be in those good positions and drop points like we have. But it's also a positive, the fact we're putting ourselves in that position.

"Now we need to just be a bit more savvy, a bit more streetwise and have a bit more nous about us in certain moments in games and manage games a little bit better than what we're doing. We need to manage restarts better. They're huge. We speak about them all the time, when the ball goes dead. It's about the shape, organisation and communication. These are things we're trying to get better at all the time but it's a work in progress. We're quietly confident that we can have a really good second half of the season."

Despite their lowly position, Rovers are actually on their joint-longest unbeaten league run with no defeat since the turn of the year. Jamie Sterry and George Broadbent are expected to be fit enough to be included tonight after they both suffered a knock against the Latics at the weekend.