LEE Feeney was honest in his assessment after watching his side soundly beaten by Glenavon on Saturday.
The Mourneview Park outfit were 17 points behind the Seasiders, and without a point on their travels all season, ahead of Saturday’s clash at Clandeboye Park.
But there was no sign of the gap between the two sides as Michael O’Connor’s side dominated across the pitch from the first whistle and Feeney reflected on a miserable day for his Bangor team as they look to secure their own Premiership future.
“It was as bad as it could have been,” he admitted.
“We defended badly, we were second to everything in midfield and we were poor in attack. Really we were just so weak all over, and collectively everything was so poor.
“We couldn’t do the basics right,” he added. “We couldn’t control the ball or pass it to our own teammates. We couldn’t win our duels, we couldn’t defend and we couldn’t attack.
“In times like that you need leaders to help calm everyone down and regroup, but we don’t have that at the minute.
“Gareth Deane is very experienced but has an injury and couldn’t play, while Mark Haughey had to go off and we really missed him.
“When I look at the team that finished the first half, there were so few players who have played Premiership football regularly up until this season,” he said.
“Sometimes we need to manage games a bit better and we’re missing that bit of experience to guide that on the pitch. Those times where we maybe aren’t playing well or are under the cosh a bit more, we need to know how to manage the situation and try to keep possession and just work ourselves back into the game.”
Feeney’s mood wasn’t helped by the nature of the goals that his side ‘gifted’ to Glenavon. The Bangor manager pointed to mistakes in all three of the goals as he looks for a way to tighten up a defence which has conceded fifteen goals in their six game winless streak.
He said: “All three goals were very avoidable. The first goal came from our own poorly hit free-kick and then we got caught out on the counter attack.
“The second goal comes from a free kick that we win on the edge of our own penalty area but we tried to take it quickly and got it all wrong, which led to the corner that we did not defend well. Then the third goal is an individual mistake.
“Our concentration and focus just hasn’t been the same recently. It’s like when we attack we switch off mentally at the back, and when we are defending then we aren’t switched on up front. We’ve spoken about it and it’s something that we need to improve on.
“For most of the season we have loved defending, and we’ve been really good at it, but we have lost that a bit over the last few weeks and that’s something we will look to rekindle.”
