Blackpool boss Simon Grayson felt individual errors cost his side, although he was delighted with the second-half comeback which left De Canio chewing his nails.

Rowlands struck two minutes after the break, but Blackpool never laid down and had Burgess and McPhee strikes to show for a stirring fightback.

"When you give any team a two-goal start you are up against it," said Grayson. "But at half-time I thought we were still in the game.

"At half-time we said if we could get the next goal we'd be right back in it, but unfortunately we didn't.

"Individual errors cost you at any level and that is what happened tonight. But I'm pleased with the attitude and the character of the players.

"At the start of the season if you'd given us this amount of points with the amount of games we have left, we'd have taken it."