DESPITE watching his side lose to league leaders Oxford United and receiving his marching orders, manager Dean Saunders still found some positives from this all action encounter.
"We started the game well and I thought that we played really well at times," he said.
"It was a good game to watch and I thought that we could have scored three times in the first three minutes.
"Curtis had a chance and the referee has given a foul against him for some reason and then Marc Williams had a chance where their lad has made a great tackle but then we have conceded from a corner.
"We have gone through different things and I have asked the lads what happened and they have said to a man that it was a foul on the goalkeeper. For the lad to head it in from two yards it must have been a foul on the goalkeeper otherwise he is in the back of the net.
"That changes the game and we are then chasing around trying to get a goal back, we had some good chances but ended up leaving some gaps at the back which happens when you are trying to get a goal back.
"You pick a team that you thing is going to win. Wes scored twice at Forest Green, he could have had four the other week and he deserves to play. Obviously Gareth Taylor has scored four times in the games that he has started so you make these decisions. Marc went into midfield with the hope that he would get forward a bit more than Nathan Fairhurst would.
"I got sent off in my first game against York, when I side-footed the ball back onto the pitch and that didn't need to happen and after that I thought that there was no point in arguing with the referees.
"I watched what happened again today and I wondered if it was the same sport that I have been working in for the last 20 years. I said to the linesman that 'you are causing a riot' and a perfectly good game was getting ruined.
"You will see that Frank Sinclair has not touched the Oxford player and he has got sent off. We are trying to win the game with 15 minutes to go and that type of thing, what can you say?
"I am not sure about their lad being sent off either.
"We've got the best defensive record in the League after seven games and we are trying to find the right formula to get them in at the other end. We have got two games in hand and if I get the effort that I got today then we will be alright.
"When you are in the form that they are in, they expect to win and that is confidence.
"I just thought that in the last 15 minutes that we didn't have enough players anticipating where the ball was going to drop. Too many people didn't anticipate Gareth Taylor's flick ons late in the game and everyone in the stadium could see what was going to happen, but we'll practice that in training and hopefully next time the players will get on the end of it."
