MANAGER Derek Williams blamed a lack of character for Wellington’s dramatic late exit from the FA Vase.

The villagers exited at the first-round stage after having been two goals up playing against 10-man Bolehall Swifts and Williams is concerned by how often this sort of thing is happening.

“I’m massively disappointed to go out of the FA Vase today.

“We just haven’t got any character in our team and we keep giving it away all the time – it’s happened about 12 times now," said Williams.

“I just think we haven’t got the will power to win and this isn’t the first time this has happened.”

Both sides started in a scrappy fashion and it was the visitors who had the first chance on five minutes when a defensive error let in Chris Sturridge-Parker but he could only hit the goalkeeper.

Four minutes later, Wellington took the lead when striker Aaron Morgan found himself through on goal and he managed to finish past the oncoming goalkeeper.

The rest of the first half continued to be a tight, scrappy affair. The visitors could have equalised through Sturridge-Parker but he couldn’t grow enough to get on the end of a free kick.

Into the second half and the visitors went down to 10 men on 59 minutes when Tom Starkey was sent off for two yellow cards in the space of three minutes for fouls on Josh Hunt and Jamie Yau.

Williams said: “I don’t know whether going down to 10 men gave them the impetus to go on, perhaps it did.”

A minute later, Morgan could have had his second when he chipped over the oncoming goalkeeper but could only send his effort wide.

On 63 minutes, it was 2-0 when Morgan turned provider with a right-footed cross from the left which was headed home at the near post by Luke Winter.

As the 10 men pressed for goals, the home side looked dangerous on the counter with Hunt and Morgan having good chances to score.

The visitors' comeback began on 78 minutes when Ryan Millerchip headed home from a free-kick that had been flicked on to him.

A minute later, the scores were level when striker Dave Yowwin was allowed to turn in the box before finishing well past Wellington goalkeeper Chris Mancui.

The home side pushed for a winner with substitute Matt Williams going close twice.

But it was Bolehall who got the winner when their substitute Tom Lapworth was allowed to ghost past a couple of defenders to score.

“We should have finished the game off Matt came on and missed two good chances," said manager Williams.

“We played good football at times, but we don’t know how to win a game – that’s the problem.

“We had four players in their box when we were 2-0 up.”

The club have two home games coming up, with Black Country Rangers the visitors on Saturday before they play Gornal the following week.

“To me, we’re in a relegation dog fight now," said Williams.

"The reality is that we are six points off the bottom two.

“We've got tough teams coming up now and we need to get a bit of grit in the team.

“They are two of the better teams and it's going to be tough to get anything out of them.”