Bristol Rovers met a bump in the road that they hope leads to promotion on Saturday, off their game and taking a step back at Newport County.
James Waite scored the only goal of a game where Joey Barton's Gas rarely found fluidity and control to slip to four points back from the League Two play-off places, ceding some of the momentum that had been amassed over a brilliant run in the past two months.
With several players below their standards at Rodney Parade, there are causes for concern for Barton as he plots his route through the final 12 games of the campaign, but he and his squad have assembled enough evidence to believe that the damage suffered to their play-off hopes on Saturday can and will be repaired in the coming weeks.
