A complete performance from Rovers and we gave Swindon a good, old fashioned mullering. It is no coincidence that we scored three for the first time this season just as the Hemmings-Glatzel partnership really starts to blossom.
What a fitting send off to give Nate, and how spooky that we scored the opening goal just as the applause for him was ringing round the ground.
We started the first half really brightly and could easily have been two or three up in twenty minutes. In addition to the opening goal, Warrington fired wide after only a few seconds, and Glatzel crashing a shot against the post from a tight angle after a lovely lay off from Hemmings. Swindon came into the game with a fair amount of possession midway through the half, and knocked the ball round quite nicely. However, as we have seen so many times this season we were happy to let them have the ball in non-threatening areas, and we did not give them a sniff of a goal. I don't think the header that they glanced wide even counts as a chance to be honest.
It seemed that at half time Mellon had instructed the players to be more aggressive and pen Swindon in when they tried to play out from the back. The result was that we completely suffocated them in the first twenty minutes of the half, forcing them to turn possession over cheaply and give the ball away in bad areas, and we could easily have scored further goals.
Defensively we were completely untroubled and Swindon's first genuine shot came in stoppage time.
Individually, I thought Morris, Glatzel, Hawkes and Hemmings were all excellent. Davies reads the game fantastically well and gives us something extra defensively, as well as KP has played in the last two games. I thought Warrington looked a very tidy player indeed. He was always trying to be positive and play forward, which is a quality we don't really have with the other central midfielders. The pass which put Hemmings through when he hit the post was inch perfect.
Man of the match, Kane Hemmings.