City snatched a point away from home thanks to a late penalty from Bruno Fornaroli. But van't Schip did not hide his disappointment after the game, stating that his team "did not deserve to win".

The glamour side have yet to win a game since taking out the FFA Cup at the end of November.

"I was very disappointed about that ending," van 't Schip admitted.

"First half we were OK, we came up 1-0. It was a great goal. In the second half when we started we just lost control. They won every ball, we couldnt keep the ball. They had more passes. In saying that we had one of the biggest opportunities to go 2-0 up, with Brucey Kamau one on one with the keeper.

"But then he decided to cross it instead of keep on running it in and have a shot. We got a corner out of that situation and they scored on the break from that corner. So... instead of going 2-0 up it was 1-1. And after that we just lost control.

"It was again a moment of not being sharp on the break. In the end we could have won it. But, to be honest, we didn't deserve to win today. We expected to play better and we didn't.

"That's credit to the Mariners but also that we didn't deliver the way that we played in the first half, we didn't continue that in the second half. We helped them into the game. For our standards we're not happy of course."

City sit in fourth spot on the ladder, 13-points off league-leaders Sydney FC, and van 't Schip said he wanted more consistency from his star team in the second half of the season.

"We're happy about the win in the FFA Cup but that's gone," he said.

"That's part of the season. Looking now at what we've achieved in the last games, it's not what we're happy about.

"We dropped too many points. We had four draws and a loss. Too many games we play one half good, the other half not.

"This game we were good in the first half and not in the second half. In the other games it was the other way round. It's not consistent and just not good enough."