A SIX-letter word sums up the feeling at Aggborough this week -- relief!

And that's all down to our 2-1 victory over Barnet on Saturday.

It was pretty obvious we desperately needed to win after our recent run of poor results and now, hopefully, we can start to get back up the table.

But it's certainly not going to be easy, you've only got to look at our next four fixtures to realise that.

During the forthcoming spell we've got to play three teams with realistic play-off aspirations -- Leyton Orient, Southend and Blackpool -- and also Cardiff who I think are certainties to get automatic promotion.

So, as you can see, we are heading for a very difficult period, but at least we'll go to Leyton Orient on Saturday with a little bit of confidence and hope.

I can't emphasise enough what a massive relief it was to get back to winning ways for the first time since Boxing Day.

When you go through a bad run you try to keep the spirits up by telling everybody it's going to turn around.

It does at some stage, but the confidence at one point or another takes a knock and you can work as hard as anything on it during training but there's only one thing that'll cure it -- winning games.

I went straight into the dressing room after the match on Saturday and thought I'd have a quiet word with them to say that hopefully this is the start of better things to come. But the relief just took over and it wasn't the right time. It was a time for them to enjoy.

They all worked very hard so I was delighted, but personally whatever happens in games it affects you as a manager whether you win or lose.

But, whereas I wouldn't say our recent results were weighing me down massively because I learned a lot at Swansea, it does have its affect.

On Saturday, it was a case of lying in the bath before going upstairs to have a drink with the chairman and directors -- and the win obviously made that just a little bit easier!

But, I have to say, after my experience at Swansea I don't try and put myself under unnecessary pressure.

I thought it was only a case of when we were going to get a win rather than if. But I didn't think we played as well as we have. I said during the build-up to the game that the better performances we have produced we've had nothing to show for them.

But we just needed a win and, looking over the full 90 minutes on Saturday, if anyone was going to do that it was us.

It was just whether we were going to get those goals because again we had a couple of incidents where you thought it wasn't going to be our day. But it all came right in the end with two super goals.

One of the talking points on Saturday was my decision to make a goalkeeping change, bringing in Tim Clarke for Stuart Brock.

I have to say it was probably the longest it has ever taken me to pick the team for a number of reasons and obviously the goalkeeping situation was one of them.

I just thought we were conceding a lot of goals lately and Brock, in terms of the Football League, is still young and inexperienced and before it started to affect him I felt I wanted to take him out of the firing line.

He knows that he is still regarded as our number one goalkeeper, but for the time being he just needs a little break from the first team.

In many ways for Clarke on Saturday it was an easy afternoon. I can't remember them, apart from the goal, having another shot.