HAVING squandered first half chances, Cinderford Town made a tame exit from the FA Cup – a game that manager Paul Weeks described as 'passing his

team by'.

He reflected: "I had hoped for a show of second-half spirit, but it never materialised. Sometimes you have to admit you are playing a better team. They were much more clinical than us and it seemed to me that in the end the game just drifted away from us."

Weeks remains upbeat about Town's bold start to the season.

"Our form has been good. We have played some excellent football this season and we are still in the FA Trophy. Compared with last season we have played very well," he said.

Reflecting on the match, he said Town had missed three first-half chances.

"Pete Macklin, Tom Billings and Lee O'Conner had opportunities but none of them were taken. It might have been a very different match had we taken just one of those chances," he said.

A goal down at the interval, Weeks had hoped his team would show more spirit in the second-half. "It didn't happen and it seemed to me that the game just passed us by," he said.

"They (Maidenhead) got the ball wide and put in some telling crosses. We made our attacks through the middle but we had no-one to pull the trigger and their defence was excellent.

"I thought Nick McCootie was our man-of-the-match and equally as good as any of the Maidenhead players. Warren Archer also worked hard at right-back and enjoyed a very good game," said Weeks.

He thought a bigger crowd might have helped Town.

"I was a bit disappointed, especially as it was such a big match. The official attendence was 240 but 80 of those were from Maidenhead," he said.