GLASS HARV FULL: Harvey Rodgers of Grimsby celebrates the opener yesterday
Newport 0 Mansfield 1
NIGEL CLOUGH says Mansfield must improve to stay top of League Two.
George Maris’ winner moved them three points clear, and boss Clough said: “If we don’t play better than that in the next few games then we’ll lose one or two.
“I want us to be better over the next 12 games.”
Newport boss Graham Coughlan said: “There wasn’t a lot to get excited about.”
Crewe 2 Morecambe 3
LEE BELL insists Crewe have to learn from their mistakes.
After Elliott Nevitt and Shilow Tracey put Alexandra 2-0 ahead, Morecambe fought back through goals from Joe Adams, Jordan Slew and then Farrend Rawson.
Bell said: “We’ve got to take lessons and learn from them; we will need to go through it.”
Morecambe boss Ged Brannan said: “We showed great character.”
Swindon 1 Harrogate 1
SIMON WEAVER says Harrogate are allowed to be ambitious after their draw at Swindon. Anthony O’connor put the visitors ahead, but Charlie Austin salvaged a point for the Robins.
Harrogate boss Weaver said: “It was a good response from the other night (4-1 defeat to Newport on Tuesday). The other night was so flaky.”
Swindon interim boss Gavin Gunning said: “The performance was not very good. It was just flat.”
Walsall 3 Doncaster 1
WALSALL boss Mat Sadler was happy after Josh Gordon, Jack Earing and Mo Faal scored to defeat Doncaster 3-1.
Sadler said: “I think we’ve been good for a long time now, it’s not a flash in the pan. I’ve known for a while what a good team we are.”
Kyle Hurst replied for Doncaster, whose boss Grant Mccann admitted: “It’s a defeat that’s at my hands.”
Wimbledon 1 Milton Keynes 0
RONAN CURTIS’S last-gasp winner “was up there with anything” AFC Wimbledon’s Johnnie Jackson has experienced as a manager.
Curtis gave the home fans a moment to remember as he finished off a delightful move in the dying seconds to snatch the points.
“Honestly, it is the highest I have been as a manager,” Jackson added.
MK Dons manager Mike Williamson added: “I’m gutted for the boys and gutted for the fans.”
Grimsby 1 Forest Green 0
DAVID ARTELL hailed the commitment of his Grimsby side after Harvey Rodgers netted a winner.
Artell said: “This wasn’t a game that was going to define our season, but we really wanted to win it. We had 13 or 14 warriors out on that pitch.”
Rovers manager Steve Cotterill said: “They started fresher than us. I thought we were miles better than them and we should never have lost.”
Salford 0 Gillingham 2
STEPHEN CLEMENCE hopes Gillingham can build on their defensive prowess.
Shadrach Ogie and Timothee Dieng scored as Gills kept a third successive clean sheet. “We won a lot of duels and we defended fantastically well. That’s three clean sheets in a row now,” boss Clemence said.
“I thought that they stood up to be counted.”
Salford manager Karl Robinson said: “I felt we were sloppy in our finishing, we have to do better.”
Tranmere 1 Sutton 0
NIGEL ADKINS was relieved after Tranmere returned to winning ways.
Rob Apter netted to end a run of four defeats in Rovers’ previous five matches. Adkins said: “It’s the right result and it’s an important result, even if it did take us a long time to get there.”
Sutton boss Steve Morison added: “I’m just gutted for the players and the fans that travelled all the way up here.”
Wrexham 4 Accrington 0
PHIL PARKINSON felt Paul Mullin was on a different level as the Wrexham striker bagged a first-half hat-trick.
Mullin’s treble and Elliot Lee’s effort before half-time saw Wrexham return to League Two’s top three, with Stanley’s Lewis Shipley sent off late on. Parkinson said: “Mulls was brilliant. He was back to his sharpest. He was on a different level at times.”
Accrington boss John Coleman said: “It was clinical finishing by Paul Mullin. It was the big difference.”