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Robins raves over Scunthorpe

Image: Mark Robins: Eyes further progress

Mark Robins is thrilled with the progress Scunthorpe are making as they climbed to 14th in the table after a 2-0 win over Chesterfield.

It is the highest they have been this season and puts them within five points of the play-off places after second-half goals from Niall Canavan and Paddy Madden secured them a hard-earned victory. Canavan struck with a 58th-minute header from a corner for his second goal in successive games while leading scorer Madden blasted home his 15th goal of the season in the 85th minute. Robins said: "It was a good win for us and I am really pleased with the manner in which we played. "We were a little bit at sixes and sevens for a spell in the first half but we settled into the game and obviously the goal from Niall settled us down. "We then stuck to our game-plan and saw it out brilliantly with an outstanding finish from Paddy. "We are on a good run - and we want to keep it going - but let's not get carried away. When I came to this club last October we were second from bottom. "This is a new group of young players and they have settled in very quickly. They are giving everything they have got and you cannot ask for more than that. "Everything that is happening at the moment is good. But let's just take time to smell the roses, enjoy this result and try just to take each game as it comes." It was a third successive defeat for Chesterfield manager Paul Cook, who is urging the club's fans to stay behind he players. "This is not a time for negativity and criticism," he insisted. "This is a time for them to get behind the players and give them their support. "Every team goes through a bad run at some time - and that is what we are going through now. "Make no bones about it, we are all disappointed at the moment but it is my job to lift the players up and work hard with them to get them back their confidence. "That is what it is going to take, hard work on the training ground. The harder you work, the luckier you get. "We didn't do a lot wrong. We created some good chances but did not take them. "Credit to Scunthorpe, they have brought some new players in and are a good side. "But we are still eighth in the table in a very tough division and we would have taken that at the beginning of the season."

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