The Coventry City striker notched his first in fifteen games against Ipswich at the Ricoh on Saturday as trhe Sky Blues earned a 2-2 draw with their visitors.
And he now returns to the Liberty Stadium for the first time since his double in a 2-2 draw with the Swans which sealed Southend’s promotion to the Championship.
But after one season they were relegated and since then not much has gone right for the Welsh international who has nothced just 6 league goals in 55 appearances between spells at Wolves and Coventry – a daming statistic when you think he scored 49 in 111 league appearances for the Shrimpers.
But after finally ending his drought on Saturday he told the Coventry Evening Telegraph “I think the manager has been more patient with me than anyone this season
“He spent a lot of money on me and has probably given me more chances than anyone else.
“He has said all along that I am the right player for him and, luckily for me, he has given me chance after chance because at any other club, if you are not scoring, you are on the bench.
“It is a weight off my shoulders but the manager has never put me under any pressure,” he said.
“He knows, and has always said to me, that I am a natural finisher but that I just haven’t had any luck.
“If anything, I put pressure on myself because I am a goalscorer and if I am not doing that then I don’t think I am doing my job.
“The lads know that I do it in training day in and day out, and then come Saturday the goal just shrinks for me.
“Clinton knows what I have been going through because he went through a patch like that and he was more pleased for me than I was, but he has been great.
“He has been getting goals lately and I am delighted for him and I think we can be a good partnership if I can start pulling my weight and start scoring more.”
