Trollope couldn't believe his side had scored four goals away from home and yet left with nothing.

Posh hot-shot Craig Mackail-Smith was the reason according to the defeated boss.

Trollope said: "Their strikers were too good for us. It's hard to take because defensively we pride ourselves on our organisation, but we weren't good enough on this occasion.

"We had defenders missing from the team, but we felt we had enough to get through today. Unfortunately for us Mackail-Smith proved a big threat.

"We played well going forward and it's hard to take that we scored four goals and yet still lost.

"It goes to show that you can pass and move well and create loads of chances, but if you defend like we did you won't get many points.

"The key time in the match for me was the run up to half-time.

"We had just got back to 2-1 down and then we missed a couple of good chances.

"I'm not complaining about their penalty, but there was a similar incident in the second half when our player stayed on his feet and we didn't get a penalty."

Rovers have now scored 12 goals in their last three League One matches.