Flynn tempers ambition

one of the best League Two performances I’ve ever seen.

“His discipline, his positional sense, his work ethic and his general understanding of the match was absolutely first class. I’m pleased that he’s got an assist and Jamille’s got No.11.

“I’ve got no problem saying Colchester were the better team in the first half without creating much, they had the majority of possession and they caused us problems with their movement.

“They’re missing a few players as well as us and it was about whoever scored first, but it could have been

What I liked about it was in the first half we had to fight and we showed a bit of character.

“We rode it out and in the second half we were excellent.

“It was probably the best display since I came here.”

County caretaker boss Steve Chettle 3-0 in the end. It’s a very good day, that’s three clean sheets in a row.”

Colchester made it four games without an away win, but boss John Mcgreal believes his attacking philosophy will bring success. “We’re not getting carried away,” he said. “We know how much work we’ve got to do. “It’s a tough division, you just have to look at the results this weekend. All we’ve lost is three points.

“We passed the ball well and it’s disappointing to concede two poor goals but, on the other side of it, we kept going and still had one or two opportunities, to score.”

(below) said: “You have to take care of your own performance and, if you don’t, then things like that happen. It was not good enough. We conceded three poor goals. “We have to see where we go from here, but they have got to toughen up.”