Rotherham United and ex-Barnsley striker Tom Bradshaw's 'age' admission
TOM Bradshaw breaks into a smile when talk turns to how his role as a striker might have evolved now that he is in the winter of his professional career at 34.
The Rotherham United frontman and former Barnsley player believes things are not that different to a decade ago when he was in his first spell at Oakwell, having moved there in the summer of 2016 from Walsall.
He provides what he feels is a very good reason as to why.
Bradshaw, who has netted once since joining the Millers on an initial year's contract in early August, said: "I'm fairly lucky in the fact that I've never been lightning quick.
"I think people have said that I have been because my arms move faster than my legs!
"But I think that, for myself especially, is a blessing as you get older. Because the way I've always had to be to get goals is just to have good movement as opposed to being able to just lightning-blast past defenders.
"So I don't think that really changes. If anything, that gets better in terms of timing of movements.
"Knowing areas where you can exploit, I've always been quite big on studying defences before playing them and knowing possibly where the weak points are and knowing what areas of the box that I need to be to get goals.
"But I think that also comes with knowing your team-mates and playing them and knowing where they like to put the balls and where they like to be.
"So it's always a learning process. But I think as I've got older, I don't feel like it's necessarily impacted me as much as it would if I was a different profile of player."