I give this sort of thing some thought.
I go back a lot to a quote i once read in a good book about Ashes history. Back in the late 1800s England were heading Down Under and the captain of the time (forget which, might have been McLaren) took a look at the squad he'd been given, as it was picked purely by committee back then, and it was missing several of the best players. Apparently he said, do they think we're playing the blind school?
Point being you have to give credit and respect to who you're playing. We weren't playing Poulton Youth today, Rovers are a good team and will finish in the top half minimum.
Bar a 10 minute spell after our first, they were awful first half. That's because we were brilliant and they were a distant second everywhere. I was just praying to get in 2-0, anything else and we had a problem.
But after that, you have to accept they're going to go up several gears, they had to. And we weren't without chances second half, but generally it was just a time to hang on and fight for everything. And that's what we did. Heroic performance.
It happens a lot, but this year it's going to be even more because we're playing higher quality teams. And while we'd all like us to see games out comfortably, keeping calm and possession, the reality is unless we catch them on a bad day, virtually every team in this division has enough in them to create mayhem when chasing a game.
All you can do is defend for your life, and that's what we did.