Bottom of the table Weymouth claimed their second victory over Welling United this season leaving Wings manager Warren Feeney disappointed.

Stefan Payne put Welling ahead inside the first fifteen minutes, but Weymouth levelled with an unchallenged header from a corner before winning the match with a slick counterattack in the second half.

After the game, Wings’ manager Warren Feeney shared his thoughts.

“We put ourselves in a fantastic position.” said Feeney. “We knew before the game that it was going to be a dangerous game. They’re in a false position where they are in the league. They’ve no fear, they’ve got energy. We got ourselves in a great position but unfortunately decision making and a poor goal to give away put us back on the back foot.”

Giving away needless free kicks did not help the cause. Feeney confirmed “Its decision making. We’re letting them get set when we’re trying to win things that we can’t win. It’s a hard thing to teach as it’s what goes through people’s brains at that time. They’ve got to get that out of their game.

“I go back to the first goal for instance. We go through that a lot, we show them, and I said to them I’m wasting my time watching games for you, setting you up and defending. To go and give away a goal like that is the worst in football. It’s a basic, basic mistake that we’ve shown them twenty times.”

More poor decision making didn’t help for the winner. Bradley Ash broke down the left wing and James Dunne would ordinarily have ‘taken one for the team.’ However, having already been booked, he could not risk fouling his man and Ash raced away before squaring for Ahkeem Rose to finish.

Feeney said “I don’t think that we should have let it get to that position.

“Someone was stuck in a position where does he go and win it or does he not but if there’s no pressure on the ball you’ve got to drop so he put himself in no man’s land and made it too easy for the striker. Then we had two players attack the one ball. We’ve got to see dangers and we didn’t see it today.”

Early in the second half, Welling thought that they had regained the lead when Stefan Payne controlled Taylor Maloney’s pass and slotted it home only for the referee to disallow it, apparently for handball.

“Payney’s adamant that there was nothing wrong with the goal.” Feeney said, “The ref said it was a handball but sometimes you get them and sometimes you don’t.”

After Weymouth had gone ahead, a poor pass put goalkeeper Myles Roberts under pressure, but he came out quickly and appeared to have won the tackle with Ash. However, the referee thought otherwise, deemed it to be a goal scoring opportunity, and dismissed a disconsolate Roberts.

Feeney said, “It was massively controversial.”

“I don’t know what Myles could do. If you look at where the ball went, he’s come out of his goal, he’s won the ball, he’s took a gash on the shin. For me it wasn’t a red card at all. I can take when ones are violent conduct and they’re blatant but for me he’s won the ball quite clearly. I don’t think the striker was under control of it either. It’s disappointing but we shouldn’t have let it get to that position where we were up the pitch.”

He was particularly disappointed as his team has shown in other matches that they are capable of a lot more. Feeney said “I said to them in there that they’ve got it. We’ve got it in our locker to compete with anyone. We can go toe to toe with anyone but if you want to do something, these are the games that you’ve got to win. We huffed and puffed but we didn’t apply ourselves when we took the lead. We looked a little bit nervous, and I don’t know why. It’s something we’ve got to address.”

Welling travel to Bath City on Friday evening and Feeney knows that it will be a challenge “These are one of the best teams in the league. I’ve watched them twice and if you’re not on it, they can run all over you. They’ve got good players, full of energy, well disciplined and it will be a tough, tough, tough game for us.”

Picture supplied by Dave Budden.