Barnet boss Martin Allen felt Bees supporters got value for money today as his side beat York City 3-1 after recent “magnolia” performances.

Substitute John Akinde fired the hosts in front eight minutes after his introduction before Josh Coulson levelled for the Minstermen with ten minutes remaining.

Not to be denied a first win in three, the Bees roared back into York’s half and almost immediately went back in front when Michael Gash larruped home from a short free-kick routine.

New loan signing Josh Clarke then applied the gloss to the result with a decisive third at the death.

Reflecting on the performance, Allen said: “It’s good for all the people who pay their money to get, I would say, some value for money today.

“The people sung with enthusiasm, the players played with enthusiasm. And if you pay your money, you want some action.

“You don’t want to graft your nuts off through the week and then come here to watch a tame, dull, magnolia performance.

“Today I think it was good for our supporters, players and the whole club.”

Allen refused to get carried away by the win, Barnet’s fourth at The Hive already this season.

“It was ok,” he said of the performance. “It was a difficult first half and the wind and the wind does play – as we saw last season – a significant part in the games at this ground.

“But we weathered the wind in the first half and knew chances would come our way in the second half.

“So I think we showed a lot of resilience in the first and I thought we played quite well in the second half.”

The Bees boss made five changes from the side which was beaten 2-1 at home to Accrington Stanley last season in an underwhelming display. That included benching Akinde for a league game for the first time in his two seasons at the club.

And Allen was at pains to state the result and performance were of greater importance than his changes being vindicated.

He said: “It’s always easy afterwards.

“I always talk about Harry Hindsight, the armchair expert who lays on the sofa afterwards and says ‘You should have done this; you should have done that’. But Harry never does what I have to do and I have to pick it on a Thursday morning.

“I put my name to it. I watch them train, I know how their lives are away from football, I know what they’ve been doing and I know how they train every day.

“Some of them sometimes need a rest, some of them need to re-focus and re-sharpen their vision of how we need to play and what they need to do.

“I’m not going to stand here and say ‘I got it right today’. It’s not about me getting it right. The players that all played today put in a good performance.”

You can read the match report from today’s victory over York by clicking here.