A vital and deserved victory which should be huge for confidence.
I thought we looked much better balanced in the simple 442 and, lo and behold, Dennis scored a brilliant goal and Norris was a constant threat and could have had a hatful. We had some luck with the red card, but once Forest Green were reduced to ten men we played some very good football and the second half was enjoyable to watch.
I thought everybody worked hard and contributed. However, Norris made a huge difference to us with his physicality and ability to hold the ball up and Apter caused them major problems all afternoon. The two centre halves have been much maligned this season but I thought they were both fantastic today, particularly Turnbull.
I still have concerns about the lack of protection for the defence. In the first half in particular, it was too easy for the FGR midfielders to carry the ball long distances and get in on the back four and our reluctance to tackle in the middle third of the pitch just invites problems at times. A better team would have punished us.
However, I came away from the game believing that we clearly have more influential individuals than FGR, if only we can organise them properly on a consistent basis. I thought Forest Green were a mirror image of ourselves for much of this season: they played some reasonable football at times, but gave away terrible goals at bad times and poor discipline ultimately cost them the game.
As has been mentioned, the only real negative is the injury to Norris which hopefully is not too serious. However, his reaction when he went down the tunnel was not good.