DAVID Lucas is ready for all the abuse that Millwall will throw at him tomorrow - quite literally - but Town’s keeper is confident there won’t be more scenes of worrying hooliganism as they travel to the New Den.

Crunch games last weekend saw pitch invasions and subsequent trouble at both Sheffield Wednesday and Luton Town, and the reputation of the Lions fans strikes a chord of concern if things don’t go their way.

Swindon could deny Kenny Jackett’s side automatic League One promotion, while pinching it for themselves in the process, but Lucas believes the police will be prepared and is ready for a quick dash to the dressing room.

“It’s exciting and I’m looking forward to Saturday’s game. Maybe not the last 10 minutes when the Millwall fans might want to kill us, but apart from that I’m looking forward to it!” he joked.

“I know it’s going to be a tough atmosphere, but it beats playing at Colchester in front of 3,000 fans. It’s good, enjoyable and a chance to test yourself as to whether you can stand up to that pressure.

“But at the end of the day unless something stupid happens, what can they do? Shout at you? Maybe throw stuff at you, and that’s about it. They can’t genuinely get hold of you, or I hope not anyway!

“Millwall have got a bit of a history that everyone knows about, and it doesn’t take Einstein to realise that the police should be on their toes.

“I fully expect them to be going on the side of caution as much as possible. It only takes one idiot to take a knife into the game, be drunk and anything could happen.

“It is worth having one eye on what could happen if we’re winning. When we get into injury time I will be ready to sprint off the pitch as quick as possible.”

Having played for home town club Preston in the play-off final against Bolton for a place in the Premier League nine years ago, Lucas is no stranger to the big stage.

And the stopper admitted he is happy for Town’s young squad to learn from his experience as he attempts to lead by example.

“Maybe younger players notice that you’re not getting too overawed by it,” explained the 32-year-old.

“But apart form going up to each player, sitting them down and talking to them, then there’s not a lot you can do.

“Just by how you go about it day by day is where you pick things up - that’s certainly how I always judged all the players I played with and against.

“Experience can be a good thing and a bad thing really. If you look at Dougie (Jonathan Douglas) he’s been beaten in the play-offs three times now so maybe he’s got too much bad experience of big games.

“But when I played in the play-offs for Preston I was 23 and just took it all in my stride and enjoyed the big game atmosphere. If we do that then we should be alright.

“We’ve got a chance of achieving something really special this weekend, so we’ve got to enjoy it.”