[choirboy]

Agree with Dav and Cashman on the whole.
I honestly think that had Fleetwood kept 11 players on the pitch that they would have beaten us, probably by a couple of goals. In the last fifteen minutes of the first half and the first thirty of the second half when Fleetwood had position of the ball we just couldn't get it off them. They were very good in possession and skilful.
It is a real shame that they resorted to the typical Joey Barton tactics of foul play. The other week 'Cheat' Evans clearly bated McConville and got him sent off! He knew exactly what he was doing. Last night they tried a similar 'set up' but the 'tackle' was more physical than actually intended. IMHO the intention was to get a reaction from Sean Mac and see again what the ref would do!
That apart, Stanley played some of our squad who have not had much playing time. As Dav said, Savin was very good and this will do his confidence a lot of good. Edwards had a steady match and showed further proof of his recovery from injury and of his match fitness. Pritchard is continuing to impress with his skill and drive and confidence on the ball. Bishop didn't get as much service as on Saturday but when he got on the ball he looked dangerous.
We should have been given a penalty late on when Bishop broke through and was going to get to the ball before their keeper. He was cleverly pulled back by his arm which twisted him round and knocked him off balance.
I was sat in line with the incident immediately behind the assisant referee who chose not to see it! He got some verbal grief by all of us sat in that area of the stand for not doing his job properly! Should have been a penalty and a red card IMHO.
Once we scored our second goal we did finally dominate the ten men but allowed them a consolation goal in the 93rd minute.
A good run out for some of our fringe players and new boys and John and Jimmy will have learnt a bit more about them.

ON STANLEY ON