Ashford United manager Danny Kedwell says the conclusion to their 3-3 draw at Erith Town was the ‘craziest 16 minutes ever’

Danny Kedwell went through every possible emotion during his first league game as Ashford United manager.

The Nuts & Bolts trailed Erith Town 2-0 at half-time on Saturday despite dominating their Isthmian South East opener.

It remained that way until the 80th minute when Noah Carney gave them hope of rescuing a point.

Max Walsh levelled in the 89th minute and the turnaround appeared to be complete when Gary Lockyer struck in the fourth minute of added time for a 3-2 lead.

That wasn’t the end of the drama, however, with the newly-promoted Dockers making it 3-3 in the 96th minute.

“It was the craziest 16 minutes ever,” said Kedwell, whose side visit Harrow in the FA Cup preliminary round this Saturday (3pm).

“To be 2-0 down and get it back to 2-2 then go 3-2 up and concede in the last 30 seconds, it was mental.

“It was every emotion - take a draw, buzzing we’re winning and then feeling like we’ve lost.

“I’ve taken the positives out of it because I knew it would be a tough place to go.

“The desire and willingness to get back in the game was there and to go 3-2 up shows they’ve got character.”

Ashford failed to make first-half pressure tell and paid the price as Ollie Milton and Harry Taylor struck for the hosts.

Kedwell had warned his side what could happen against the Southern Counties East champions.

He said: “I was disappointed at half-time because I told them what was going to happen before the game.

“When you get your chances, you’ve got to take them and be ruthless.

“If you don’t, there could be that one chance that they get and they do take and you could be in trouble.

“That’s literally what happened and then they got a second.

“I made two subs at half-time and a couple more after an hour and changed the formation to