SWINDON Town head coach Ben Garner insisted he was never concerned his team would slip up against Barrow but warned his players they must be more clinical in future games.

Town had 17 shots at Paul Farman’s goal but only scored twice after wasting three glorious chances that would have sealed the 2-1 result far earlier than the final whistle.

In a game that Swindon simply had to win in order to have a chance of making the play-offs, Josh Davison and Louis Reed were on target as Garner’s men moved up to seventh with one game to go.

But when Matt Platt equalised with eight minutes to go, it appeared the Wembley dream had turned into a nightmare.

Asked if he was concerned whether it might not end up being Town’s day, Garner said: “No, not really. You just want one of those chances to go in – it’s as simple as that.

“We were creating, we were getting there. I was trying to keep the players positive and tell them to keep getting there – we did that.

“We kept creating opportunities, and the goalkeeper made a couple of really good saves.

“There was a little bit of poor decision-making or execution from us sometimes, but we’ve won and that’s all that matters.

“If it had been one where those chances had cost us then, yeah, I probably wouldn’t have slept much tonight. But now that we’ve won the game it’s a different matter.

“We still want to look at our performance and improve it – we certainly need to be more clinical moving forwards.”

The club’s top scorer Harry McKirdy was guilty of wasting two key chances throughout the 90 minutes.

The first was when he blazed over from Mandela Egbo’s cut-back cross in the first half, and the second came after he rounded Farman but chose to shoot from an impossible angle rather than squaring for Louie Barry to tap in.

Garner had no concerns over McKirdy’s potential desperation to reach the 20-league-goal mark rather than doing what is best for the team.

He said: “Harry is a fantastic team player; you’ve only got to look at the goal on Tuesday night and the ball he put across for Louie Barry.

“He wants to score in every single game, in training. If he misses a chance in training or if he misses in a shooting drill, he’s his own harshest critic.

“He’s got that desire to score goals, and I never want to take that away from him.”