Rovers boss Calderon asks fans to 'keep supporting us'

Bristol Rovers have won four of their 13 league games (D2 L7) since Inigo Calderon was appointed head coach in late December

Bristol Rovers boss Inigo Calderon has asked the club's fans to "please keep supporting us" as they look to avoid relegation from League One.

The Gas ended a run of three straight defeats with a goalless draw at bottom side Shrewsbury Town on Tuesday night but remain just three points above the drop zone in 20th.

Rovers welcome play-off hopefuls Huddersfield to the Memorial Stadium on Saturday where they've recorded seven of their 10 wins this season and only lost five times, compared to 13 defeats on the road.

"We try to use this time now to ask for the support from the fans who I know are going to be there," Calderon told BBC Radio Bristol.

"I have to ask them, please keep supporting us because especially at home it has to be a fortress. It has to be difficult for all the teams to come here.

"It's been like that until now, but now it's getting closer to the end so the nerves are coming more and more.

"It doesn't matter what happens during the game and after, if they want to say whatever, I will take it on the chin, no problem - but during the game, support us."

Calderon says getting wins takes priority over playing style at this stage of the season with Rovers keen to avoid dropping back into League Two just three years after returning to the third tier.

"Results are always the most important thing," added Calderon.

"The philosophy ideally is the way to get them but yes, probably I value the result more now than the way we get the result.

"But as I say, if we try to do it the right way, usually we are closer to getting there."

On the prospect of facing a Terriers side with promotion ambitions, albeit one who who have lost three of their last four games, Calderon added: "Obviously they're having a good season. It's going to be a really difficult game but I think we have had good games against good teams at home.

"I don't spend too much time on the opposition. Obviously I want to know how they play, how we can hurt them.

"But for me it's more us because the last game I think we were not our best and that has to be our focus."