Absolutely crucial 3 points after the debacles against Colchester and Shrewsbury, we have to win games at home against the lower teams. Stevenage targeted our danger players, Petrasso and Philiskirk by closing them down immediately but you can't do that for 90 minutes and we should have made better use of the space in the last 15 minutes. They had no quality except Morais and some of their passing was dreadful. I didn't think our shape did Mellor any favours and I thought he did as well as he possibly could against Morais and still managed to get forward. Smith was excellent but I'm not sure about Harkins as I think there is a danger we may have to carry him for large parts of games - we shall see. Pleased for Oxley with a clean sheet at last, he made some smart saves.
Final point for the referee, I thought he was excellent. I dont have a view on the sending off as I didnt see it but I think he didn't get a decision wrong. His spot of Dayton being held for the free kick routine was impressive and I even liked that he booked Oxley from 50 yards away rather than waste even more time by running back to the box like most refs do.
Onwards and upwards.