THE Wanderers dressing room ‘police’ will ensure that standards don’t slip ahead of this weekend’s game against Rotherham United.

Praise showered down on Ian Evatt’s side after their televised draw with Burton Albion and a 5-2 mauling of Ipswich Town – but the Bolton boss is confident it will not go to the players’ heads.

Rather, he wants an air of arrogance from his players, which will be kept in check by some of the more experienced players in his squad.

“Every game in this division throws up a different challenge and Rotherham will certainly be a different one to Ipswich,” he told The Bolton News.

“But this can’t be after the Lord Mayor’s show. It has to be spot on.

“I think as a group they are hungry and they want to learn. They know there is improvement there if they want it.

“There is an air of confidence, the borderline arrogance, and I think you need that when you play the way we do. You have to have that bravery.

“I am super happy with everyone at the moment because their attitude has been first class and we won’t let that slip away. What we do here is take those excuses off the table. I was a player once and I know that when you give an inch, they’ll take a mile – that’s just the way we are as human beings.

“We have to make sure we are driving those standards every day, the leaders in the camp like Matt Gilks, Alex Baptiste, Eoin Doyle, Antoni Sarcevic – now Elias Kachunga, the lieutenants of the changing room, so to speak, will police it and make sure that younger players know what is required.

“If you don’t do what we want then you are held accountable, and that is how a dressing room should be.”

Evatt is also aware that there will be difficult spells this season and that is where he feels the work his players are currently doing on the training ground will stand them in good stead.

“We have 39 games left, 39 opportunities to play how we did against Ipswich and Burton,” he said. “But we know it won’t always be sweetness and light, we’ll have times this season where we get a poor result or run of form and it is at that point you draw on the standards and your values, the culture you have created.

“The good times, it is easy to come in and apply yourself the right way. Things are happy.

“When things are not going well you have to go back to those core values, the standards you set in training. That is how you stop those poor runs from going on too long.”