HARD work starts on Monday for Forest Green's Joseph Mills.

Pleased to score his first goal for Rovers in the 1-1 draw against Cheltenham Town, Mills hopes his side can find a winning formula when former non-league rivals Tranmere Rovers visit on Tuesday night.

Mills insists Rovers need to put things right after an abject first-half showing against Cheltenham was tempered by a much improved second-half performance.

"Tranmere are flying and high on confidence coming here," admitted Mills.

"But with this group, and philosophy we are trying to play, we have to focus on ourselves. We know what we are capable of and we just have to hit the heights,

and we will be putting the work in on Monday to put things right and hopefully start the game well on Tuesday and follow that on for the whole 90 minutes."

Mills was delighted to get off the mark following his arrival from Perth Glory in the summer, and he revealed a training ground move worked to perfection as he arrived in the box to send a header crashing beyond Scott Flinders from a Theo Archibald delivery with 15 minutes to go.

"It was nice to get the goal - I haven't scored in a while," he revealed.

"We have been working all week on it and fortunately the manager and Scott (Lindsey) told me to go up this week, which was nice. I tried to be aggressive and get on the front-foot it was a great ball in and I managed to get my head on it."

Mills almost added a late assist to snatch a last-gasp victory, but former Cheltenham midfielder Carl Winchester was denied a certain goal after a miraculous clearance off the line by Haydn Mullins.

Mills said: "I managed to stand the ball up and it was a great header from Winnie back across goal and it would have been good for him, but it was great defending from them and unfortunately we couldn't get the ball over the line.

"In the first-half we didn't perform well enough, but fair play to Cheltenham they pressed us from the off.

Team spirit has been the mantra this season and Mills revealed the proverbial flying tea cups stayed on the table, he added: "To go in at 1-0 down, wee had a look at ourselves in the changing room and some words were said.

"We have got a great bunch of players, so first of all the manager wasn't even in, so we got ourselves together as a group and then the manager came in and reiterates that and puts some tactical points across and the changes freshened things up - gave us a lift and we all raised the tempo in the second-half

"We came out and played like a Forest Green team should in the second-half and we pressed them in, got wide and got crosses in and in the end we were unfortunate not to possibly nick it."

Rovers have now posted nine draws in 14 games this season with just one defeat, but Mills wants more.

He said: " With our ambitions, we need to start turning draws into wins."