COLLINGE HAS STING IN TAIL AS EXILES ARE HELD BY BEES

EXILES manager Graham Coughlan accepted their Non-League opponents were much the better side after seeing his team denied a direct route into round three by a last-gasp equaliser.

-  Simon Porter

Frustrated at his side’s performance, he admitted ‘we weren’t good’ and added they would need to be much better for the replay.

Danny Collinge nodded in the dramatic 89th-minute equaliser, just when it seemed that Shane McLoughlin’s 44th-minute strike was going to be enough for the Welsh hosts to reach round three.

National League Barnet are just 12 places below League Two County in the football pyramid, but you would never have guessed as the visitors dominated.

County manager Graham Coughlan was happy to get another opportunity, even though his side had come so close to scraping through.

“We are still in the cup,” said Coughlan. “We had chances to put the game to bed, but we didn’t, they were better than us and we got out of jail.

“They put us under pressure and started the game right – their mentality was right and ours wasn’t.