’Stute gaffer annoyed by ’Breda’s defensive style

However the ’Stute boss was expecting Hugh Sinclair’s side to be more attacking and try to claim three points and do damage to one of their Championship One rivals.

“If I’m to be honest I can’t see them winning the title,” insisted Kee.

“I just think that they need to have a wee bit more and if I’m to be honest I was disappointed in them, but the result does put them favourites now I think there’s going to be a few more twist and turns in the next while.

“I think they were happy with the point, as there was a lot of time wasting going on in the second half and there was a lot of game management going on and a lot of unsavoury stuff going on to be honest but that’s the nature of the Championship.”

The Waterside men’s gaffer to his credit praised Knockbreda’s work-man-like etiquette, but he wasn’t happy with some of the things which went on.

“It was two points dropped in our eyes but I felt we did enough to win the match and it was disappointing when certain chances came that we didn’t take them and their keeper (Brian Neeson) made three or four good saves.

“We did have the lion share of possession and attacks in the second half but we just couldn’t get through and you have to give credit to them.

“But if you have a team trying to win the game and another team who just sit-in, waste time, try and badger the referee that’s football, it’s not what I would like in fairness and the fact that the referee (Peter McGrath) is from up around their neck of the woods and they were all shaking hands with him and calling him by his first name at the start of the match, I don’t think that did us any favours and we were worried about that.

“Their manager (Hugh Sinclair) just refereed the game and wasn’t spoken to once, which was absolutely embarrassing, but again this East/West thing sometimes does me in but I was happy with our performance.

Kee also felt that some of his players looked tired especially striker Stephen O’Flynn, however overall he was pleased by the team efforts.

“Stephen wasn’t at his best and because he played last Tuesday night against Armagh City games are starting to catch up on him, but there was nothing in the tank on Saturday and that was disappointing but once again I’m more than happy with the effort from the players.

“I feel if they put that effort in every game then I wouldn’t complain.”