We should have won!

Sep 27 2006 By Doug Thomson, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

GOAL hero Gary Taylor-Fletcher looked back on Town's escape act at Tranmere and insisted: "We should have won."

The 25-year-old scored his seventh goal of the season to seal a comeback 2-2 draw for Peter Jackson's side and stop the Birkenhead team from going top of League I.

Tranmere dominated the first half and were two up at the break, through Calvin Zola (10 mins) and Chris Greenacre (37).

And most of a 6,702 crowd at Prenton Park must have been surprised by a fightback which started with a first goal of the season from Andy Booth on 52 minutes.

But not Taylor-Fletcher.

"We were absolutely awful in the first half," admitted the ex-Lincoln man, who got both Town goals in Saturday's 2-1 win at Swansea and scored last night's leveller after 75 minutes.

"It really shouldn't have taken a rollicking from the manager to make us pull our fingers out.

"But we've been up and down form-wise all season, and it's something we have to address.

"The reports we had were that Tranmere might well run out of steam in the second half.

"Even at two down, we knew that if we kept grinding away and pulled one back, a second would follow as our fitness told.

"If we'd played like we did in the second half all the way through, we'd have won the game, and after my equaliser, we had another chance to take all three points, but it wasn't to be."

The 4-5-1 system which worked so well at Swansea was abandoned after the first half last night, with Jackson bringing on striker Pawel Abbot in place of extra midfielder Tom Clarke.