Ashford United 0 Herne Bay 2: Ashford manager Tommy Warrilow reacts to his team's Isthmian South East play-off final loss

Ashford boss Tommy Warrilow felt his side were undone by fine margins in their Isthmian South East play-off final defeat to Kent rivals Herne Bay on Saturday.

For the Nuts & Bolts, who lost at the same stage three years ago to Horsham, it was a bitter pill to swallow.

An even tie at Homelands swung Bay’s way when United had a penalty appeal controversially turned down before winger Kieron Campbell struck soon after in the second half, with substitute Aaron Millbank then scoring a spot-kick six minutes from time to seal their 2-0 success.

“It’s just hard,” he conceded.

“Listen, the last thing they (his players) want to do is hear us shouting on at them. They’re devastated in there.

“It was fine margins. I don’t think there was a lot in it today.

“I don’t mind about all this possession stuff - it’s about how teams hurt you.

“Today, we’ve not scored and, if you don’t score, obviously, then you don’t get the result.”

On the goals his side conceded, he added: “It’s more disappointing the fact that I thought for both goals - I don’t want to sound disrespectful - but they weren’t well worked by them.

“They came from us (Ashford mistakes). It was a tight game.

“We did cancel each other out and you’re going to in games like this. We’re both entertaining (sides) and my teams are always thinking attack, attack, attack, but we wanted to make sure today we also didn’t get caught on the counter-attack, although we did on a few occasions without the end product.

“But it’s a one-off game, there’s a lot riding on it, so you do change your tactics a little bit.”

Warrilow accepts conceding the first goal changed the complexion of the game.

He said: “It does because you’ve got to look to get back in the game, and we got caught for the