Sidley sent crashing by Bridges

The visitors had got off to a fluid start and led through a superb Jimmy Watson strike, but a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot gifted the points to a Bridges side fully expected to rise through the Sussex Division One table.

"It was very disappointing because we started off so well. For the first 15-20 minutes we knocked the ball around confidently and I thought it was the best football we had played for ages.

"We scored a cracking goal and then we sort of took our foot off the pedal," said Laskey. "I know it sounds stupid but perhaps we did the wrong thing by scoring because after that we looked a bit of a sorry side.

"They (Bridges) are a good side and they should not be down where they are but we're just so frustrating because there is no consistency. One week we seem to have fire in our bellies and the next..."

He went on: "Defensively as a team we are all over the place because we give the ball away too easily and it puts us under a lot of pressure.

"Once we let one in you can see our heads drop. The four goals they scored we all down to individual errors."

Sidley opened the scoring on six minutes when Watson rounded off a flowing move with a superbly-struck half volley from the edge of the Bridges box which flashed past the goalkeeper and into the top corner of the net.

The home side were handed a route back into the match just past the half hour when Graham Morris, who hadn't put a foot wrong prior to the equaliser, chose to trap the ball rather than head clear and Danny Smith strode forward to score.

Soon after Gavin Jones took advantage of more slack defending to put Bridges ahead at the break.

Jimmy Smith added a third midway through the second half when Greg Thurstans flapped at a corner and Pat Massaro completed the scoring from the penalty spot late on after Thurstans brought down a forward in the Sidley box.