This

Mansfield fans might come out and say the typical thing of them playing poorly, but there is no way they have come up against a better team this season (on the night).

We were absolutely brilliant for the majority of the game.

One thing I will say, is that I can kind of see why Mansfield are top of the League. Under MW, we are very, very rarely under the cosh at any time, but Mansfield did give us a few hairy moments, albeit thankfully not that often.

Just shows you that stats can be absolute bollocks, especially at this level. Apparently Mansfield had 8 big chances (rarely ever see as many as that) vs our 0.

So Dennis' miss and Gilbey's chance at the end that was saved weren't big chances? And where on earth did they get 8 from?

3 from the pen (2 saves then a goal on the 3rd shot), 4 together in the 2nd half when we made the quadruple block and 1 other at the beginning of the 2nd half. That's a max of 3 goals in my book.
We had both goals and the shot their keeper turned over near the end at the very least

Looking at the highlights neither of our goals was a big chance, the Dennis header probably was

So losing tonight would have made you less angry about Saturday?

Yes. Sat was an opportunity thrown away by not playing as well as we showed last night, and against Newport the game before, we completely blew it against a crap side.

An alternative view might be that we lost against a side that exploited our vulnerabilities. We currently struggle, particularly away against more physical sides and have a tendency to over commit in certain circumstances. We played below our capabilities, largely because we were made to.