Martin Allen admits he'd have made different substitutions after his Barnet side threw away a 3-1 lead to lose 4-3 to Yeovil.
Michael Gash and John Akinde both scored to give the Bees a 2-0 lead after 52 minutes. Matt Dolan pulled a goal back but Akinde's second should have sent Barnet on to the win.
However, Nathan Smith and Francois Zoko scored soon after to make it 3-3 and the Glovers had the win after Harry Cornick's injury time strike.
“It was a crazy game for sure today,” Allen said. “The wind was horrendous, and I thought we played really well to get through the early stages of the match.
“In the second part of the first half, up until half time, I thought that we did really well too.
“But the second half was a very open game.
“Having sat for five minutes and had a chat with the senior players and the staff, you’d probably say that we would have changed our team at 3-1 up on a different day.
“We’d have put Bondz N’Gala on as an extra centre-back, and used Sam Muggleton because of the wind.
“You could call it ‘park the bus’, which is what we’re so good at.
“But today we kept two up front, one in behind the front two, and we played a very open game.
“We tried to win it and score more goals – I suppose that’s a good lesson for all of us, and reinforces the messages, values and principles that we’ve put in place.
“When you get ahead you’ve got to win the game; you’ve got to do what you can to win it, even if it might not always look the best.
“That’s what we’ve done over the last two years here – when you’re winning 3-1 you’ve got to change it and block them out.”
Allen also revealed that the defeat has cost some of the younger players in his extended squad a run-out against Crawley.
“The one real disappointment today is that we didn’t top 60 points,” he added.
“That’s what we were aiming for, and the focus for our players is to beat 60.
“Now the team that goes out and plays Crawley next week will be a strong team and a full-on team.
“If we’d won today then I’d probably have given out a few debuts on Saturday, but my mind-set is different now.
“We’ll play a full team – I want to win down there at Crawley and the young boys will have to wait.”
