Beating Torquay with ten men showed the character that I knew we had in this team.

You’ve seen the way things have gone this season and it would have been easy to let heads drop after Andrew Davies got sent off.

We had the ready-made excuse if things went wrong. Everybody could blame the referee for losing.

But I’ve said all along that it’s only a matter of time before things change – and you could see that on Saturday.

I said to the lads at half-time that I could smell a result coming as long as we stayed switched on and every single person played well.

We kept two tight banks of four and Craig Fagan and Kyel Reid were great outlets on the break. They made Torquay think and stopped them from pinning us in.

The sending off was harsh. I’ve got to know Andrew since he’s been here and he’s just an honest, hard-working lad who’s never gone out intentionally to hurt anybody.

He didn’t slide in recklessly or go in with his feet high. He didn’t go off the ground.

Their lad didn’t help the situation by staying down but I think there needs to be a bit of commonsense involved.

Referees have got to be more football aware than just blindly following the rule book.

The challenge I did wasn’t worth a yellow card either. I’ve taken the ball cleanly from the side and didn’t touch the player. But because I slid in close to him the ref thought it was from behind. It was a hard one to understand and for the rest of the game I couldn’t really make a tackle.

It’s got me up to four bookings now and only one of them has been deserved, when I pulled the lad back against Sheffield Wednesday.

I’ll have to be careful because one more yellow card will mean missing a game, which is the last thing I want.

I’m not the type who expects to walk straight back in the team. We’ve got good competition for places and if the lads get a good result without me, I might end up sitting on the bench for the next few weeks.