{"id":671175,"date":"2026-01-03T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671175\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:50:11","slug":"tom-lockyer-bristol-rovers-defender-believes-club-will-have-big-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671175\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lockyer: Bristol Rovers defender believes club will have ‘big January’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lockyer returned to football<\/a> after a two-year absence with Bristol Rovers in October under Clarke, who he played for at the club at the start of his career.<\/p>\n

He said it had been a “tough couple of months for everybody” at the club as they slid down the table, and that the mood in the changing room after their win was not “too jubilant”.<\/p>\n

“We know our standards haven’t been anywhere near good enough this last calendar year,” Lockyer said.<\/p>\n

Rovers have picked up four points (W1, D1, L2) across Evans’ first four matches in charge and Lockyer said you could see a “reaction” from the players to his appointment.<\/p>\n

While they lost 3-2 to league leaders Bromley, they led for 54 minutes until Shaq Forde was sent off, and against Barnet, they were undone by two goals from set-pieces. <\/p>\n

“The gaffer’s come in now and he’s demanded a few non-negotiables, which I like, which I can get behind and can bring success and you’ve seen a reaction of sorts,” Lockyer said.<\/p>\n

“To come away to Shrewsbury, defend set-pieces and be big, strong and ugly and do the dirty side, but the basics I’d call it – obviously Fab [Cavegn] has put them away really well as well – I thought we fully deserved the three points.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lockyer returned to football after a two-year absence with Bristol Rovers in October under Clarke, who he played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-671175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115831257318124531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}