SWINDON Wildcats head coach was disappointed in the manner his team finished the game despite beating Sheffield Steeldogs 7-4.

Swindon had sailed into a comfortable 6-1 lead just minutes into the third period but after young net-minder Michael Crisp replaced Stevie Lyle with ten minutes to go that lead was put in jeopardy.

Three quick-fire goals made for a anxious finish at the Link Centre but, with Lyle restored to net-minding duties, captain Jan Kostal was able to put the game to bed.

“The first two periods were pretty good, we have got a young team and I know that but we can’t get carried away when we are up on teams,” said Aldridge after the match.

“We pulled Stevie (Lyle) and put (Michael) Crisp and normally when that happens your team tightens up and plays good for the guy who has been sat on the bench all game cold.

“Tonight we didn’t. I felt we were a little bit selfish in certain areas and we were going for goal too much and it opened it up and we got caught.

“The first one is 50/50 on whether he should have had it but the guy who scored is an absolute sniper. It is one he maybe could have handled but the other two I don’t think he had chances on because guys let him down in certain areas.”

A fine individual goal from Tomasz Malasinski opened the scoring after a cagey opening ten minutes and the Pole doubled the lead two minutes before the first buzzer.

The visitors pulled a goal back through Greg Wood after new signing Tomas Kana was sent from the match for a big hit on Ben Morgan less than a minute into the game.

Goals from Adam Harding, Floyd Taylor, Toms Rutkis and Jan Kostal put Swindon in a commanding position.

However after the introduction of Crisp goals from Janis Olozins, Steven Duncombe and Tim Smith threatened to turn the game on its head but the deficit was too big to haul back and Kostal added his second of the game with the opposition net-minder Dalibor Day pulled from the goal.

“Harding played well tonight and it was another really nice goal from him,” added Aldridge who felt that Kana was unfairly treated when he was sent from the game 54 seconds into the second period.

“Tomasz’s first goal you’ll never see a goal like that again it is probably one of the nicest goals I have seen and Jani (Kostal) worked hard and he deserved that one at the end.”

“It’s a big clean hit and I think that is a terrible rule, when someone goes to the changing room injured the other guy gets kicked.

“Of course any team in the world when an import hits a British player and they get a little bit hurt of course they are going to send the British player to the changing room for five minutes because the import gets kicked out.

“A few weeks in a row now we have been hit by that and Morgan comes back and plays five minutes later.

“I think it was a horrendous call and for me it was a clean hit. I would like to see it on the video but I think it was shoulder to shoulder and I think Morgan has even said it was a good hit he is just a big man who hits hard.”

Aaron Nell sat out the final period but Aldridge has said that it was only precautionary and hopes to have him back fit for tomorrow night's trip to Telford.