CHRIS Lines says Bristol Rovers have to target a run of home wins to get their season back on course.

The Pirates, away at Colchester United today, play three of their following four matches at the Memorial Stadium.

And midfielder Lines says Rovers have to capitalise on home advantage and end a drought which has brought just one win from the last 13 league outings on their own soil if they are to climb the table.

"We haven't done well at home over the final months of last season and start of this one – and it's something we need to put right," said Lines,

"When you have a good run at home, other teams feel nervous about coming to play you on your own ground and start to panic.

"We've not put back-to-back victories together for quite a while now and that's what we need at the moment.

"A couple of wins would put us up towards where we want to be."

Lines has played wide on both flanks as well as in the central midfield berth he prefers so far this season.

And he feels the system coach Paul Trollope utilised for last weekend's 0-0 draw against Crewe, which saw skipper Stuart Campell patrolling just in front of the back four, would also serve the team well on their travels.

"Some of the fans may have thought it was a bit defensive for a home game, but I think it would work really well away because that's the way you want to play. We had chances to score as well," said Lines.

"I enjoyed it because I was in the middle, which is where I want to play.

"I've never really played quite that way before, but it worked for us because we didn't concede a goal. We'd worked on it a bit in training for a couple of days, but it's always different when you get out there on the pitch and you are facing really competitive opposition.

"The main objective was to keep a clean sheet, and that's what we did.

"Our results weren't that good in September, but we have had a couple of draws now so hopefully we can push on and start getting a few wins on the board which would start shooting us up the table.

"That's what we need more than anything at the moment because we don't want to be hanging round near the bottom four for too much longer.

"The clean sheet last weekend was important and we need to keep doing that because we are always going to be capable of scoring at the other end. We have already proved that."