CHELTENHAM TOWN boss Martin Allen has offered his players an additional incentive in a bid to land three points at Millwall this afternoon.

Allen is already ringing the changes around Whaddon Road following his appointment on Monday, with the changing rooms having undergone a makeover.

The new manager invited the decorators in to slap on a coat of red paint and has stripped the walls of the pictures of some of Cheltenham's former greats.

And in their place, Allen is promising to display images of the current bunch of players. He will base his decison on who is to adourn the walls first on their performance in this afternoon's encounter at the New Den.

Allen said: "I have had the dressing room at Whaddon Road painted because I don't like magnolia.

"When I walked in there on Monday I thought the place looked like a funeral directors.

"The chairman got it painted for us and then I took all the pictures off the walls.

"That is without any disrespect to the players of the past, but I want the current ones to make their mark and get their pictures up on the wall.

"I have about 15 frames and for the next home game a picture of one of our players will be going up, and it will be someone who has done good at Millwall."

Allen takes charge of the team for the second time and is bidding to build on the midweek victory over Bristol Rovers.

To do that, however, Allen will have to put one over on his friend and Millwall boss Kenny Jackett.

"I have been on coaching courses with Kenny and I have always got on well with him," said Allen.

"He rang me up when I lost my job at Leicester and even offered me a role as a scout at Millwall.

"When you are an out-of-work football manager it is a lonely place to be, and I respect him for offering me that job because he didn't need to do that."

Allen, though, will not be showing his gratitude once the game gets under way against a side he labelled as the "form team".

The Lions have lost only once in their last six league games and enjoyed a single-goal victory at much-fancied Leicester last weekend.

"To win at Leicester was a fantastic result for them and they are definitely the form team," said Allen.

"I just want us to go there and compete because it is no good turning up like a pansy and letting people walk all over you.

"I don't like losing myself, and as a paying customer all you can ask for is that all the players compete."

That spirit and desire to compete will be a key ingredient in Allen's bid to establish Cheltenham in League One on a miniscule playing budget.

"There is a massive gap in budgets, which allows some clubs to get supposedly better players," Allen said.

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