Spennymoor Town 2 AFC Telford United 3.

Spennymoor manager Jason Ainsley is going to show his players a video nasty of the goals they’ve conceded his season after poor defending gifted the points to Telford on Saturday.

After keeping a clean sheet at Chester on the opening day of the season and looking quite comfortable throughout defensively in that game, Moors have conceded ten goals in their last four matches, and Ainsley believes that most of them should have been avoided.

“I’ve asked for a video of the goals that we’ve conceded this season, because they’ve all been avoidable,” he said. “Most of them have been through sloppy defending, none more so than the second goal we conceded on Saturday.

“As manager the buck stops with me. We set the team up well, but then poor mistakes cost us goals.

“I can understand if other teams open us up with some clever play, or they’ve scored a worldy from 25 yards, but that hasn’t happened.

“I thought that we were good on Saturday in the first half, we played some good football and Telford didn’t really create anything. We were on top and in the ascendancy.

“Then there was a five minute spell that turned the game around. They scored from a tap in, but the second goal was simply a long punt up the middle by their keeper that should have been dealt with. It was a comedy of errors.

“We’ve conceded nine goals in our last three matches, and that stupid five minutes costs us. We’re getting punished for our defensive mistakes, and we have to score worldies at the other end to make up for them. This is a tough, unforgiving league, and we must improve in defence.

“So, on Tuesday night at training we’ll be going through a video of the goals we’ve conceded, and look for improvements.”

There was no real sign of the defensive calamities to come as Moors took control of the first half.

Mark Anderson went close for Moors in the opening minutes, and he broke through to give Moors the lead just on the half hour mark.

There was a good move down the right-hand side which led to Anderson picking up a pass from Jake Hibbs, turned, and then fired left footed into the bottom corner to give Moors the lead, his third goal of the season.

Moors were then well on top, but couldn’t score a second before half time.

Telford improved in the second half, and Amari Morgan-Smith nearly equalised, but he was denied by Matthew Gould in the Moors goal.

But the keeper couldn’t stop Telford’s equaliser on 56 minutes when he could only parry Amari Morgan-Smith’s header straight to Daniel Udoh who tapped in.

Telford’s second goal infuriated the Moors management team, when a simple clearance by the Telford keeper caught the Moors defence completely flatfooted, allowing Udoh to run through and even though Gould blocked Udoh’s initial effort, the ball rebounded back off the striker and into the net.

Shane Henry nearly equalised but was denied by the keeper, and Glen Taylor only just missed with a powerful shot.

But Telford went 3-1 up when sub Adam Dawson, who had a brief spell at Darlington last season, played the ball from the left into the path of Ellis Deeney, whose shot took a big deflection and sent Gould the wrong way.

There was some encouragement for Moors when Telford’s Ryan Sears was shown a second yellow, and David Foley pulled a goal back from a few yards out with four minutes left. In stoppage time, Anderson was just off target from a free kick, but they had given themselves too much to do.

Moors: Gould, Williams (sub Hibbs 25), Atkinson, Curtis, Brogan; Anderson, Ramshaw, Chandler (sub Johnson 83), Henry; Boyes (sub Foley 79), Taylor.

Subs: Thackray, Elliott, Attendance 600 Marske United started life well in the EvoStik League East by beating Sheffield 4-0, but the other promoted Northern League club, Morpeth, lost 1-0 at Belper.

In the EvoStik Premier, South Shields beat Witton Albion 2-1, while Whitby beat Buxton 1-0.