Referee Kurt Ams had a controversial evening awarding a dubious penalty to the Mariners which enabled the home side to go 2-1 ahead in the second half following contact between Brett Studman and Daniel McBreen.

"That's not a penalty for me," McLaren told Fox Sports after the game.

"The boy (McBreen) is backing in and leaned right into Brett Studman. All Brett has done is stand his ground and the two players have fallen over in the direction they are going so for me that's not a penalty."

McLaren, though, did admit the Mariners were denied a clearcut penalty when Ams waved away Patricio Perez's claims after Gareth Edds brought him down inside the box.

But the Fury assistant fumed about the decision to not award the visitors a free-kick when Chris Payne was brought down, in the lead-up to Dyron Daal's sending off on 79 minutes for dissent.

"I don't think we can complain in a sense about that one (the red card) but it could've been prevented if the referee makes the right decision and awards a free-kick to us on the edge of the area at two-all where we're a great chance to get a goal which puts us in front," he said.

McLaren's anger at the officials was not finished there after revealing details of a half-time altercation between the Fury coaches and fourth official in the tunnel at the break.

Cameras showed Straka was animated at the referee's decision to blow the half-time whistle when the Fury were in an attacking position with a corner to come and McLaren revealed it spilled into the tunnel.

"This is what annoyed me, as we went up the tunnel we had calmed ourselves down and all we tried to do was explain to the fourth official we were trying to make a point to him and we were entitled to do that," he said.

"He (the fourth official) said to me 'we're not entitled to make a point' which I thought very strange, perhaps even stranger than the decision to blow up for half time when we're in an attacking situation."

McLaren added the loss was a tough one to swallow for his side after a tough program of away games in the past week.

"I've never seen a room so disappointed," he said. "They deserved so much better out of the game tonight. They deserved more than one point from the three games that we've had, the boys are just devastated."

He continued: "Tonight proved to me there's no justice in football. We worked so hard, we played so well and we earned at the very least a point. Where I sat I thought we deserved the full three points tonight.

"We hopefully can put together a decent run over the next little period, when we've got some home games coming up, we'll pick up some points and the young boys and their enthusiasm can carry on.

"The performances have been outstanding but the circumstances have gone against us."

The Fury's next match is at home to Perth Glory on October 15.