Exeter City winger David Wheeler has called on the 'Red Army' to get behind the Grecians and help them end their home hoodoo against Bury this weekend.
City have lost their last four games on home turf, but will fancy their chances against former Exeter striker Ronnie Jepson's side, who lie 20th in the League Two standings.
"If we can get at the, early on and the fans stay with us for the whole game, I have no doubt that we will be fine and we will come through it," Wheeler said. "We just need to start fast and keep our energy levels as high as possible.
"There have been a few games where we have started really well. I remember the Wimbledon game – we started incredibly well, but it seems to be more recently where we have started slowly and conceded the first goal too many times."
City should be in buoyant mood after ending a wretched run of five straight defeats with a point in Tuesday's 1-1 draw at Wycombe Wanderers, where Wheeler made his first start for the club since the
3-0 home defeat to Hartlepool on October 12.
"We can take a lot of confidence from the result at Wycombe, we were happy to stop the run of five losses and break that negative momentum. We just have to give it everything again on Saturday and, hopefully, we can get a result," Wheeler added.
"It always plays on your mind to an extent because you give everything every week and, if you keep falling short, then it does start grinding at you. No one gets carried away or hysterical if we win five in a row or lose five in a row, but you do get dejected because you work hard every week and it's not coming off. Hopefully this is where it turns around."
Bury will arrive in Devon having won their first game in five courtesy of former City striker Daniel Nardiello, who netted the only goal in a 1-0 win over Hartlepool in United midweek. Exeter will be looked for a first win since they beat Scunthorpe United 4-0 and a first at home since their 3-1 win over Plymouth Argyle.
However, Tuesday's point at Adams Park at least stopped the rot and gives Exeter something to build on.
"It could have been worse, but it could have been better as well because we had some chances at the end. We could have nicked it and I don't think that would have been unjust," Wheeler said.
"They were very lucky with their first goal – it took a huge deflection – and then they seemed content to stay with that for the rest of the game and kill time, there was a lot of slowing the game down and time wasting.
"But we put a lot of pressure on them towards the end of the game which paid off. We haven't been doing a lot wrong and, as you saw with the first goal, it is maybe just a bit of luck going against us at the moment."
On his return to the side, the former Staines Town man said: "I was really chuffed to get back to it, I have been out of the team for a few weeks now, but I have been working really hard and I am really happy to be back involved.
"I thought I had an OK game, I did a lot of pressing and stuff and I did OK with the ball. I just want to keep my place in the team now. "
