As I posted on another thread, we are so un streetwise and its costing us dearly. I know it's not the "proper" way to play but if the opposition are in the 4th officials ear and crowd the ref, we need to do the same. Swindon got our "goal" disallowed by harassing the 4th official and Sutton got away with things our players got booked for by crowding around the ref, something we haven't done since Charlie Goode left. You can't just sit back and let it happen, you need to fight fire with fire.
Agreed - no question Sutton deserved to win but their gamesmanship is clearly part of their game plan - did they up it because it was a lady ref ? - personally I doubt it but interesting to see them in other games and I suspect it is the same.
To your point we definitely lack that fire - for me Charlie at times was simply a cheat but I think we can still inject more fire without compromising all integrity