Regardless of anything else that happened, decisions that may or may not have gone our way (depending on how you saw them), Fleck got sent off. And the decision to send him off was correct .
Moaning about their players not getting punished appropriately just smacks off thrashing about looking for an excuse for the loss and anyway we can't control those things.
Let's worry about things that we can control, not things that we can't. And what we can control is what our players do, and what substitutions and game plan we have.
To be brutally honest, the substitutions/changes made after the sending off contributed more to the defeat than the actual sending off.
I really like the way we play. I like the fact that we try and get after teams and try and win games rather than set out for a draw. But sometimes, discretion is the better part of valour.
We are an attacking side and we are now playing in a way that in recent times we could only dream about. But sometimes it makes more sense to hold your fire and hang onto your position, rather than go charging off like the Light Brigade and ending up with a bloody nose and worse off than you otherwise would have been.
We could and should have taken a point tonight, regardless of Fleck's departure.
But then again, we live and learn and hindsight is a wonderful thing!
