Clayton Donaldson shared his thoughts following Farsley’s heart-breaking late defeat to Alfreton Town on Saturday.

Obviously disappointed with the result. I don’t think that we deserved to lose. I thought the point was the absolute least that we deserved with the way we performed.

I thought we played well overall. Had two moments where we just switched off and it cost us. It’s hard to take because we did have chances to increase our lead in the game. We hit the post, the keeper made a couple of good saves but I think that was their only two moments out of three they had in the game.

They bombard you with long throws and set pieces so you have to be resilient and stay focused which we did for 80 minutes and then we switched off and we were punished.

Alfreton have been unbeaten at home for a long time now, they made it into the playoffs last year playing that way. As soon as you switch off they capitalise on it.

There was a lot of positives to take from the game though. We always look at those. Their players and staff came up to us at the end of the game and told us they didn’t deserved to take all three points. That tells you how the game went for them and for us.

These things happen in football. We’ve got to learn from our mistakes. Couple of late goals costing us again, we’ve got to nip that in the bud if we want to try and progress this year.

We go again. If you’re going to lose then you want to lose playing well for the majority of the game and we did that so that’s the main positive we can take which we will do going into the next game.

Onto Tuesday now and Southport away is a game in which we can try and put things right. We played well there last year and got a decent result so we’ll be looking for the same again.

We’ll obviously watch and analyse where we went wrong on Saturday but at the same time we’ll move on quickly and make sure everyone is ready for that by picking a side that can take all three points.