CHRIS Taylor says that he cannot look back on Swindon Supermarine’s season with pride despite them reaching the play-offs.
The Webb’s Wood Stadium outfit saw their Southern League Premier Division dreams quashed for a third time in four years at the semi-final stage of the after season lottery as they were beaten 2-1 at Taunton Town.
The South Marston midfielder, who was also involved in the play-off defeats to Merthyr in 2013 and 2014, felt that the team were lacking a cutting edge in both boxes as their Somerset hosts came from a goal behind to snatch victory.
“It felt almost too easy – especially the first half,” Taylor told the Advertiser. “If we were a bit more clinical, a bit more ruthless in front of goal we should have finished them off.
“At 1-0 they have always got a chance and they changed their formation, went long, went direct, they got a lucky goal – it looked offside, but regardless it has gone 1-1.
“We still had chances after that, we had a free-kick put over and they have gone up the other end and scored– the goalie got the assist.
“You couldn’t fault the performance – it was just the ruthlessness in both boxes that has let us down.
“The top teams have that ruthlessness and go on and finish that game 2 or 3-0.
“That is what we should have done, we didn’t do that. It is all ifs and buts.”
When the dust settles on Tuesday’s defeat the 30-year-old says that he can only look back at the campaign in one way.
“I’ll look back and think it is a failure,” the former Swindon Town youngster said.
“We lost, we haven’t done anything.
“The only team that is going to do well is whoever wins (the play-off final) on Monday – all the other three failed.
“I’m disappointed, that is three times now – it is not good enough. It is hard to take.
“I thought we had control of the game for the entirety.
“We had a good early goal from Josh, we had a lot of chances, we can only blame ourselves – we should have put the game to bed.
“Their two goals were bad defending, especially the last one.
“They didn’t play that well, the game was there for the taking – we let ourselves down really.”
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