Les upbeat despite defeat
Monday 26th October, 2009
By Richard Ault

Caretaker Manager Les Parry is confident Tranmere are progressing despite seeing his side go down to an, albeit unlucky, 1-0 defeat at Hartlepool on Saturday.

Rovers dominated the early proceedings at Victoria Park and saw two efforts cleared off the line during the course of the game.  Despite that, a goal in the closing stages of the first half gave the home side the points and a late red card for Charlie Barnett meant that it was a far from enjoyable journey home.

Despite that, Parry was heartened by his teams display, and is also hoping match referee Gary Sutton has a change of heart over Barnett's dismissal.

Parry told the waiting media at full-time:

“I said before the game that the one thing I was confident of was getting a good performance from the team, and we certainly saw that.  We had some good chances. Some set plays we had worked on came off, and were kicked off the line.

“I said to the lads that I will not react to results but to performances – and that was one of our best of the season. We can only take positives from it.  The organisation in the team is better, although we are still making the occasional silly mistake.

Regarding the sending off, Parry said:

“I could not work out why Charlie was sent off. I will be having another look at the incident on the DVD. I actually thought the referee wasn’t going to give a foul at first.

“We will ask the referee to have another look at it and hopefully we will be willing to change his mind.

“If he sticks to his guns we will just have to accept it.”

Rovers host Swindon at Prenton Park on Saturday in a special 125th Anniversary Celebration, during which many club legends will be paraded.  Special ticket offers are being ran by the club, see link below for more information.

Swindon Town tickets - Official Tranmere Rovers website (will open in new window)