LEAGUE TWO

WEEKEND ROUND-UP

IT WAS hearts-in-mouths for BRISTOL ROVERS who fought back to beat ROCHDALE 4-3 and confirm their play-off spot. Joey Barton’s team could even go up automatically if they better Northampton’s result, depending on how Port Vale do against Newport today. Rovers, who had Paul Coutts sent off, snatched victory in the 90th minute when Aaron Collins completed his hat-trick. ‘I was being kept abreast of results which wasn’t very helpful because we were out of the play-offs, then we were in the play-offs,’ said Barton. ‘It would have been easy to take the point but we didn’t. We felt we could win it, we kept pushing on and we got our reward. ‘The key for us was getting the three points — whether that was a scabby 1-0 or the most entertaining 4-3 win in recent memory for Gasheads!’ NORTHAMPTON drew 1-1 with promoted EXETER, who are in a battle with Forest Green to win the title.

FOREST GREEN lost 3-1 at home to HARROGATE and boss Rob Edwards could not hide his frustration. ‘I’m really disappointed with that result,’ he said. ‘We’ve got promoted and we’ve done what we needed to do but I don’t want our season to end with a whimper.’ SWINDON moved into seventh with a 2-1 win over BARROW but have Sutton, Tranmere and Salford chasing them. Manager Ben Garner believes Swindon are timing their run to perfection. ‘Momentum is great and we’ve got it now which is wonderful,’ he said. ‘It would be a fairytale to make the play-offs, given where we were in July. It is in our own hands now.’ SALFORD, who have a game in hand, meet play-off rivals MANSFIELD at lunchtime today.