HE may have been the winning manager, but Darren Ferguson pulled no punches in the aftermath of the nine-goal thriller against Rovers at London Road.

The Posh boss described the match in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph as "farcical"' and "absurd"' as both defences struggled in front of the live Sky TV cameras.

Ferguson said: "I feel I just want to go home and chill out after that. I'm sure for the neutrals and the television people it was a great game of football, but for me it was a farce.

"We won which is obviously great and I want to entertain which is good also, but I will have to take a long, hard look at the match video at some of our defending.

"And I'm not just singling out the centre-backs or indeed the whole defence, as a team we were sorely lacking when defending all match.

"Even when we were two goals ahead I never felt comfortable that we were going to close the game down.

"There was an edginess and nervousness about the place which I hadn't seen before. There was no composure to our football and that disappointed me.

"We looked anxious and on another day it could easily have finished 10-9. It was just absurd at times and it was difficult to work out which team defended the worst.

"Obviously we played great going forward and Craig Mackail-Smith was outstanding.

He deserves the credit he will get because he was just too good for the Rovers defence."

Paul Trollope admitted the Posh strikers were too hot to handle on a crazy afternoon at London Road.Trollope couldn't believe his side had scored four goals away from home and yet left with nothing.

He told the Evening Telegraph: "Their strikers were too good for us. It's hard to take because defensively we pride ourselves on our organisation, but we weren't good enough on this occasion.

"We had defenders missing from the team, but we felt we had enough to get through today. Unfortunately for us Mackail-Smith proved a big threat.

"We played well going forward and it's hard to take that we scored four goals and yet still lost.

"It goes to show that you can pass and move well and create loads of chances, but if you defend like we did you won't get many points.

"The key time in the match for me was the run up to half-time.

"We had just got back to 2-1 down and then we missed a couple of good chances.

"I'm not complaining about their penalty, but there was a similar incident in the second half when our player stayed on his feet and we didn't get a penalty."

Rovers have now scored 12 goals in their last three League One matches.

The Peterborough defeat rounded off a bad week after our defeat in the JPT. New Bournemouth boss Jimmy Quinn, who had a watching brief during the 3-0 win over Rovers, hailed Darren Anderton in the Bournemouth Echo as "different class" after the midfielder had starred in Cherries' 3-0 victory.

The Gas got a hard-earned point at Leeds United but according to their boss Gary McAlister in the Mail On Sunday it was only because "they switched off twice."He added: "We will learn from a mistake on the first goal and we were caught cold on the second."

The Yorkshire Evening Post has its own Fan's Jury which reviews all games and of course against Leeds they all referred to us as just "Bristol."

Jury member Keith Gaunt said: "We got a lift in the second half playing to the Kop, this almost saw Bristol crack but in the end we had to settle for a point"

Vicky Ward said: "Leeds did have some very good spells in the game but were held well by Bristol."

It seems a long time ago since we got those six goals at home but the Hereford Times revealed how United "were given a first half pounding at the Memorial Stadium" as they trailed 3-0 at the interval.

Hereford made a disastrous start when, with just two minutes played, Dean Beckwith fell over in the penalty area to allow Darryl Duffy an opening which he did not waste.

Three minutes later, the Bulls were two goals adrift when Ricky Lambert found some space 25 yards out, turned and unleashed an unstoppable shot which flashed over Craig Samson and into the net.

A further two minutes on and it could have been even worse. Duffy sped clear of the defence and, although his shot beat Samson, the woodwork came to Hereford's rescue. But the Bulls were punished again on 22 minutes. Sam Oji failed to get close enough to Duffy and the striker cracked his second of the game past the helpless Samson.

Hudson-Odoi replaced the ineffectual Moses Ashikodi at half-time but any hopes of a quick revival were shattered inside 35 seconds of the second-half. Richard Rose's indecision left Jeff Hughes in the clear and his fierce drive from 25 yards nestled in the top corner. Lambert somehow managed to curl his free-kick from 25 yards around the Hereford wall and into the bottom corner of the net. And, if that was not bad enough, Chris Lines conjured up a virtual repeat three minutes from time for the sixth. Guinan's injury-time goal was little consolation for the 588 travelling Hereford fans.