BRAD Quinton labelled his team’s second-half performance in their 2-2 draw with Wealdstone as “schoolboy” after a frustrating ending for Braintree Town at the IronmongeryDirect Stadium.

The Iron saw a two-goal half-time lead cancelled out by the Stones and two Vanarama National League South points slip away and Quinton said he’d been annoyed by players not following through with the instructions they’d been given.

“It was schoolboy really,” he said.

“We were 2-0 up and if you let a team back in like that then it’s poor.

“We had chances but we just can’t put teams to bed.

“We tried to be too pretty, didn’t play to the conditions and weren’t organised as a lack of experience told.

“Frustration is the word for me and I’m not accepting people who are letting me down at this moment in time.

“I give people jobs to do and they are not doing it so I’m annoyed.

“Both teams knew they had to win the game, but you go in at 2-0 at half-time and you should know that you need to have the mentality to see it out.

“I told them at half-time to breathe, relax and take a rest because it was great intensity football in that first half.

“I asked them to think about their own game, think about the conditions and that Wealdstone had to come on to us to try to score.

“I told them to be confident and be organised amongst one another and to communicate and be disciplined but we weren’t.

“Maybe next time I’ll go in at half-time and tell them nothing.

“If we’d got another goal then the game was dead and buried and we had a few chances, but it’s just so annoying.

“I’m so frustrated that we were 2-0 up and playing fantastic football after being so organised in the first half and then allowed a team to come in and bully us.

“I need to think hard about that.

“It’s maturity of the players, but within the budget that I’ve got, I have to think about it.”