Paynter hoping to deliver Keepmoat goals to bring back winning feeling

BILLY PAYNTER is tonight expected to return to the starting line-up as Doncaster Rovers look to claim some overdue home comforts.

Dean Saunders’s side sit handily placed in League One, just one win adrift of the play-offs with a game in hand.

Rovers have won four games this term but with only one of those having come at the Keepmoat, Saunders will be looking for his side to make home advantage pay against Preston North End.

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Paynter was a late substitute in the victory at Leyton Orient last Saturday after a spell on the sidelines following his summer switch from Yorkshire rivals Leeds United.

But the striker seems set to come in to the starting XI due to Iain Hume, whose first goal came in the 2-0 win at Brisbane Road, not being available under the terms of his loan switch from Deepdale.

Paynter, with one goal to his name for Rovers, is hoping to enjoy a return similar as fruitful as his last at this level when he netted 29 goals for Swindon Town in 2009-10.

The striker, who netted the only goal of his first season at Elland Road against Preston, said: “Because some of us, including myself, didn’t arrive until the season had almost started, we have had to gel together during games rather than in pre-season.

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“Taking everything into account, things have gone well and I think that there is more to come from us this season,” he added.

Chris Brown and Jamie McCombe will start against their former club for Doncaster, whose only League One win at home this term came against bottom club Bury.

Last six games: Doncaster Rovers LWDDLW, Preston North End

Referee: D Whitestone (Northamponshire).

Last time: Doncaster Rovers 1 Preston North End 1; April 12, 2011; Championship.

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