In the first half, the Mariners had already hit the front courtesy of Blake Powell and they almost had a two goal lead after Roy O’Donovan found the net, but was called offside.

On the other end, the equaliser scored by Gully captain Daniel Jones with six minutes remaining shouldn’t have been paid according to the Mariners boss.

“The most disappointing thing is two decisions went against us, Roy O’Donovan is onside, that’s 2-0 and their first goal is offside,” Walmsley said.

“The decisions were decisive, we’re playing away from home against tough opposition in early pre-season, that’s a big challenge and they did really well.  

“They put us under pressure throughout and we needed to cope better with that and we needed to play better, with possession in the second half we played poorly.

“The reality now that the challenge sinks in, the players are very sore in there. They’re hurting deeply, they wanted to win and didn’t.

"Lots of things for us to work on. It just means our pre-season’s a bit longer now without another competitive game.”

Despite Walmsley’s criticisms of the officiating, he was gracious in defeat and congratulated his counterpart Arthur Papas.

“Credit to Green Gully, it’s always great for an underdog to get a result in a cup tie. It was a real cup tie and they put us under pressure and controlled the game,” he said.

“We had Heavy pitch early pre-season some of the players were probably a bit fatigued and didn’t play well enough second half at all to lay any claims there.”

Walmsley also concerned how deflated his team looked for the most part of the second half and the display dished up by the Mariners was poor against a semi-professional side.

“The concern for us wasn’t how dangerous they looked, but how we were performing. We weren’t composed enough in possession, we didn’t move the ball quickly enough from side to side,” he said

“We had one spell of it in five minutes in the second half, It would have had a tick mark for acceptable. The rest of it was rubbish and we need to be much better than that.”