Clarets striker Ian Moore is glad that re-arranged games come along sooner rather than later.

On Tuesday Burnley travel to Millmoor to face Rotherham United in a fixture that was called off on Boxing Day due to a frozen pitch.

With his father Ronnie at the helm of the Merry Millers, who are struggling for their first division lives, Moore junior is conscious enough about the damage he could do to the South Yorkshire club.

"It is better that the game comes now and not two months down the line," said the Clarets' £1million front-runner.

"If it was later in the season it could be crucial, I wouldn't want to be the one scoring the goal to send them down."

But while the Clarets concentrate on gaining points to ensure a place in the promotion frame, for Moore senior the fight for survival is all too real - and that could count against Burnley.

Today's game against Barnsley and Tuesday's trip will be as hard a task faced as any against the Clarets' competitors for a place in the Premiership, reckoned the Turf Moor hotshot.

"Playing against sides lower down the division can be harder," he explained.

"They want to keep what they have got and put men behind the ball and that makes them harder to break down than teams who are wanting to attack.

"But that is how it goes and it will get tougher all the way to the end of the season."

And through his Dad's current experiences, Ian knows all the anxieties that face struggling sides.

"To be honest he is suicidal at the moment," he said.

"My Dad is not happy with the way they are playing at the moment and, while they got a great result against Southampton in the FA Cup, the points are not coming regularly enough in the League.

"They were at Stockport today and that was an important one for them to win.

"Having said that it will be just as important again for them to take points from us on Tuesday.

"But all I can do is my job for Burnley and if I score and we win then I'll have done my job.

"I just hope if that is the case then Rotherham manage to do the business over the rest of the season and stay up."