Millwall boss makes light-hearted comment after Tom Bradshaw delivers in front of Sky Sports’ cameras once again

Gary Rowett is hoping that the Sky Sports cameras will be at The Den for the Championship finale against Blackburn Rovers with Tom Bradshaw keeping up his impressive record when the broadcasters cover their matches.

The Wales international has scored two hat-tricks when the Lions have been live.

And Bradshaw helped himself to two more goals tonight – taking his season’s tally to 17.

The Millwall number nine could even have had the chance of another matchball but Zian Flemming stepped up to score from the penalty spot and put the South London club ahead for the third time on an topsy-turvy evening on the Lancashire coast.

Flemming, a club record signing from Fortuna Sittard last summer, is on 15 goals in his maiden campaign in English football.

Millwall’s victory – their 19th of the Championship season – ensures they are right in the mix for the play-offs ahead of the final match at home to Blackburn a week Monday.

Rowett told Sky Sports: “There is no easy way for a club like ours to do it. Steve (Morison, on punditry duty) knows that. We’re a hard-working team – we’re never going to do and just outplay teams.

“I keep saying it to the players – you look at teams like Norwich, West Brom and Watford that have struggled to get points at this stage of the season with players that have cost an awful lot more than our players. But what we’ve got is a real honesty and fight in there.

“If you look at the finishes tonight we showed some really good quality.”

Millwall’s first saw Ryan Leonard burst forward from his defensive role to produce a low cross for Bradshaw to finish first time.

Duncan Watmore was the provider for the second, slipping the Millwall striker through to coolly dink over Daniel Grimshaw.

“That’s something we worked on with the back three, Lenny is the one to step in and almost make the overload down the side,” said Rowett, asked about the early opener. “Coops, we wanted to sit a little bit safer.

“It’s a good run by Lenny – he’s got loads of energy – and it’s a good finish by Bradders.

“I’m just hoping you guys are here next week – I’m going to tell him you are even if you’re not! He only scores on Sky at the moment! It’s a really good controlled finish.

“His second one as well was almost an even better finish – calm. It was a great ball by Duncan Watmore, it was by far his best game for us. He showed real quality. It takes a little bit of courage to find that right finish.

“Him and Zian scoring again – it’s been a consistent factor for us this season.

“We need big players at this point of the season to go and win the games.”

Flemming’s 75th-minute spot-kick sealed only Millwall’s second win in their last eight fixtures.

“Vogey is our usual penalty taker but he wasn’t on the pitch,” said Rowett. “Big players have to step up and if they don’t then you don’t deserve to get in the top six. It’s a good, composed finish.

“I would have been going absolutely crazy (if Bradshaw had attempted to take it). Bradders is a team player. It probably didn’t enter into his mind. He’s so unselfish, the way he works and runs. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have dared do that.

“They’ve got four days off now, so he’d have found out pretty soon that he’d have been in tomorrow!”