Stuart Gray admitted he is looking for his players to improve their consistency when they return to action against Peterborough United on Saturday September 13th after an enforced international break.

"Maybe this is just how this league is but at the moment we seem to be playing well one week and indifferent the next," he said.

"In my own mind at the start of the season I had a starting eleven but due to injuries that just doesn't happen.

"I'm not carrying the biggest of squads but what I have got is a good young squad who are still learning.

"We made a bid for a player on Monday but that got turned down. The pleasing thing though is that the loan window reopens next week and that is something we will definitely be looking to utilise.

"We need to do that because at the minute we are pretty stretched and I think on Thursday morning we had six players on the treatment table.

"Our goal is to finish above 9th and I think realistically if we can do that it will have been a very good achievement for this football club.

"We are obviously delighted with the draw we got in the Carling Cup, financially it is great for the club although it would have been nice to have been at home.

"I don't want that game to distract us from what we've got to do in the league though and in our last two games we have let ourselves down.

"The nitty gritty stuff is the league and yes it's nice to think that we have got that trip to Sunderland in a few weeks but we have got to first of all focus on our upcoming league games against Peterborough, Stockport and Huddersfield.

"The Peterborough game is obviously a big game for us being a local derby, we are at home and we looking forward to it.

"I always set goals and we finished 9th last season so we need to improve on that. It's not just about league position though and I've set the players the challenge of scoring more goals, conceding less and improving their own individual performance as well.

"If we can finish above 9th that will obviously put us in and around 6th, we had a little window of opportunity last season to get into the play-offs when we played Nottingham Forest and Carlisle and I think if we'd have taken four points from those games instead of none then we would have been right in there."