Manager Kieran McKenna says he and his staff went through their usual process of reviewing the game following last week’s injury-time 2-1 defeat at Cardiff City.

The Blues, who had won their previous six matches, were 1-0 in front via Kieffer Moore’s 79th minute goal, but the Bluebirds hit back on 95 and 100 minutes to turn the game around in dramatic fashion.

“We went through our process, we look back at the game,” McKenna said. “I think it would be a big mistake to just look back at the last 10 minutes, to be honest, because on 95 minutes, we'd be seven wins in a row and [setting] club records and getting all the plaudits.

“And on 100 minutes, we've lost a game and, of course, you have to analyse that part and what we could have done better in the extra time period especially. 

“But also, as I said after the game, sometimes these things happen in football. Sometimes moments happen and you're not going to win a 1-0 away from home without having to defend a corner, and we had one to defend, or having to defend a couple of crosses into your box. Sometimes the luck in the margin doesn't go your way.

“But we reviewed the whole performance, how we could play better, how we can play better in the first half, how we could be even more dominant in the game.

“We felt like by the time the goal came we'd grown into a good performance and I think we could have been good value for 1-0 if the game had finished five minutes earlier. 

“But we still know that we can play better and we still know that we can improve. We still know there are good bits from the performance but also bits that could have been better and phases of the game that could have been better.

“So we focused on the whole game and how we could have improved the whole performance but, of course, also then how we could have seen the last six minutes out better as well.”

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ImAbeliever added 17:34 - Mar 15 We was robbed
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Andy32Cracknell added 17:36 - Mar 15 I’ll review it for you, apart Moore’s goal (which was class) the performance was not good enough. Too many players had 4/5 performance out of 10. Need to forget about it and move on (quickly).
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MK1 added 18:46 - Mar 15 Haven't seen it as I was away, but this is a tough league and not a surprise that anyone can beat anyone. From what I read, it wasn't a great team performance, but we have had more than are fair share of those since McKenna arrived. We go again and hopefully 3 points tomorrow.
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SickParrot added 18:55 - Mar 15 Having reviewed the game he must have concluded that, although we should have won the game, our overall performance was only 5 out of 10. Coming after six straight wins no need to be too critical, but to have any chance of automatic promotion we must be much better in all our remaining games.
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cressi added 19:42 - Mar 15 Take the Rosie coloured glasses of we was poor as we were for large periods v Bristol City but got the rub of the green vast improvement required from when the whistle goes at beginning off game.
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ArnieM added 19:52 - Mar 15 Learning point from review of the game? Don’t sit back and try and defend a lead. We’ve never been good at doing that historically anyway and certainly not with this defence!
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hyperbrit added 20:02 - Mar 15 what defence?
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TimmyH added 23:19 - Mar 15 It was lacklustre...played better 2nd half and then went on the back foot as soon as we scored, we're not good at that!
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hyperbrit added 02:15 - Mar 16 League1 defense -Championship offense is a bad mix
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markytitfc added 09:18 - Mar 16 Just read a bit in EADT by Alex Jones. He seems to think the defeat was down to alot of travelling and alot of games. I put it down to pixx poor defending! Big win today COYb's
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Hatman2 added 09:45 - Mar 16 Was a harsh lesson like the Charlton game last season - which the team responded to really well. Fans should feel entitled to watching us dominate every minute of every game in this incredibly competitive league. Agree we looked to have it under control, but we were too pure in still trying to find short passes out of tricky situations at the death, just needed to get rid and get up and out in added time.

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Hatman2 added 09:49 - Mar 16 Was a harsh lesson like the Charlton game last season - which the team responded to really well. Fans SHOULDN’T (typo correction!) feel entitled to watching us dominate every minute of every game in this incredibly competitive league. Agree we looked to have it under control, but we were too pure in still trying to find short passes out of tricky situations at the death, just needed to get rid and get up and out in added time.

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Lightningboy added 11:04 - Mar 16 We have to defend a lot better - I know we "defend as a team" but we can't keep relying on the forwards to score 3 or 4 goals every game to dig the actual defenders out of a hole.
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Linkboy13 added 16:03 - Mar 17 The main lesson we learned from the Cardiff game like most games in the championship you cannot afford to switch off for one second players will punish you unlike league one where it's much easier to keep the ball.
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