Today's performance is a non-story imo. If the game was a day or two later allowing Reuben more training time, he'd have played and we'd be much more likely to have scored. If we put in this performance even with Brunt, against an average League Two team then again we'd probably have won the game.
The point I'm making is, it's fine margins. They were far from out of sight and it's against probably the best away team performance I've seen at home park since Gus Poyet's Brighton side in 2010.
Conceding three goals away to Hartlepool is something worth having a tantrum about. Losing a tight game with such mitigating circumstances is not, in my opinion. I'll be the first to have a rant and a moan when I feel it's merited (and being 8th in the league has produced a few rants and moans from me) but today's performance in isolation wasn't worth the stick it's getting.
The point I'm making is, it's fine margins. They were far from out of sight and it's against probably the best away team performance I've seen at home park since Gus Poyet's Brighton side in 2010.
Conceding three goals away to Hartlepool is something worth having a tantrum about. Losing a tight game with such mitigating circumstances is not, in my opinion. I'll be the first to have a rant and a moan when I feel it's merited (and being 8th in the league has produced a few rants and moans from me) but today's performance in isolation wasn't worth the stick it's getting.