Skipper keen to make amends

The Swinton-born defender hoped he was boosting his promotion prospects when he left Bury to join his hometown club last summer.

Ironically, it is the Shakers who will be plying their trade in League One next season and Cressell is frustrated the Millers won't be there too.

Saturday's final-day win over Torquay showed glimpses of why Rotherham were originally tipped to do well—they sat as high as second in early January—but Cresswell is at a loss to totally explain the decline in the last few months.

He said: "Due to our own performances Ronnie Moore got the sack, which we felt bad

about, and then Andy Liddell and Paul Warne took over but I think the chairman always wanted to have a (permanent) manager and we've got one now.

"He's got some good ideas and we put them together on Saturday on the pitch

"Yes, we won but I was gutted—I came out of the dressing room disappointed. It didn't mean anything apart from the fact that we know we can do it.

"Why couldn't we produce that performance for the last five games? That's a question we can't really answer. We should have and we don't know why we haven't.

"We know as a squad that we are better than what we've shown. We also know we'd a good enough squad here to be in the top three. We can keep saying it but we've got to go and prove it."