OFFBEAT WANDERERS: As Wanderers prepared for tonight's Worthington Cup clash with Nottingham Forest at the Reebok - nine days after suffering their second successive home Premiership defeat - Dean Holdsworth said the Lake District sessions had topped up the team spirit tank.

"It was painful coming back in after playing so well and still losing against Sunderland ," he admitted. "But the lads are itching to bounce back now.

"The ourward-bound thing certainly helped. It's not often you get a chance to race around a room on a motorised toilet!

"It was good banter and hard work - what you'd describe as "disguised running".

The team spirit was already there but this topped it up. It was a good idea to get away from the training ground for a couple of days to break the routine.

"Tonight we have a chance to put things right at home.

"The manager changed a lot of players round in the last round against Walsall and we got a win and he might use tonight to give some of the other lads a chance to come in and make a claim for a firtst team place.

"The important thing is that we want to win - and not just because we're at home. We want to win every game."