Neil Smith, Bromley’s manager, did not emerge from the changing room for nearly an hour following their F.A. Trophy elimination at home to local rivals Welling United.

“I was very disappointed. We’ve has a couple of games now like it.” He said “To go one nil up and you think you’re controlling it. It was a soft goal (the equaliser) to give away, again, and then we just didn’t perform how we’d been doing and know how we know we can do.

“Then to give away a free kick, and we’d been saying don’t give away free kicks on the edge of the box and Coombsie (Adam Coombes) does what Coombsie can do. Overall, very disappointed with every one of them, and I’ve let them know it.

“We got the goal and I think they went into comfy mode. I think they thought that it was just going to be that easy and they got themselves in a rut. Then the ball comes in and goes in with no-one to touch it from the wing and then that gave them the lift.

“We had the goal disallowed and the second half was just non existent.” He did accept that had Blair Turgott scored when Welling goalkeeper saved his one on one chance just before half time it might have been different.

“He (Lewington) did very well. I think if that goes in it changes the shape of the game. You’d have put your house on Blair, probably a month ago, scoring that. He worked really hard today, Blair, one of his better games for us for the last two or three games but the keeper stayed up and made it hard for him.”

Having played so poorly in the second half, Smith admitted “If it had been a draw I would have been disappointed. We just didn’t do anything that we’d been telling them to do. It is a difficult pitch, so play the conditions. You may have to turn them a couple of times and we didn’t. We played right into them.

“Sean Francis came in and dominated for them in defence and we didn’t have any imagination on what we could do after that. If we’d come away with a draw I’d have been disappointed but to lose it the way we did, I’m very angry.

“That’s three games on the spin now. We didn’t perform at Sutton. We didn’t perform last week, although we might have played better against a Forest Green side, but again today we’re giving soft goals away which before Christmas we hadn’t.“

“We had been keeping very compact, very solid, and I know some are they’re all deflected goals, like the free kick, we shouldn’t be giving the free kick away in the first place. We’re giving people a chance to have a shot at you when beforehand we’ve been very very solid.”

His situation has not been helped by their current injury plight. “I had the fourteen to pick from and I bought in Thomas O’Connor and Max (Huxter) to make the numbers up. We’re very thin on the ground. We are looking. We tried to get a couple of players in before the game but it didn’t happen and we’ve got to try and regroup and get some players in this week  We have been working hard and the board have been brilliant but some clubs aren’t letting you have the players that you want at the moment.”

On the coaching side, having lost assistant manager Steve Lovell to Gillingham, Smith said “We’ve been speaking to a few people. It’s got to be right for the club. The job role that they’ve got is a little bit more than just coming in on a Monday. Tuesday and Thursday and doing a bit of coaching. There is the other side of it that goes and so I’ve got a few people that have applied and I’m speaking to them at the moment. Hopefully, very very soon, we’ll be appointing someone in that role as well.”