Scottish Cup: Kilwinning Rangers 1 Forfar Athletic 3 as Gormley left to rue 'fine margins'

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Kilwinning boss David Gormley was left ruing 'fine margins' as Forfar brought an end to the West of Scotland League outfit's first-ever Scottish Cup adventure.Tomas Brindley's superb first half strike and a bizarre Dominic Boland own goal had the visitors 2-0 in front after 64 minutes of Saturday afternoon's second round tie at Buffs Park.But the League Two side never had it easy at any stage and were made to sweat when Thomas Collins' diving header halved the Loons’ advantage in the dying stages to raise hopes of a grandstand finish.Unfortunately for the hosts, Forfar frontman Matthew Aitken struck in stoppage time to quickly kill off any chance of a fairytale ending.Gormley admitted it had been a frustrating afternoon in front of goal but insisted he couldn't have asked for much more from his players.He told Ayrshire Football News: "The first half, I thought we were the better team throughout.

I was happy with the performance."The second goal is a body blow. When that goes in it sucked the life out of the boys."It's fine margins when you're playing against higher opposition."It was just one of those days for us where I thought we were never going to score.

It was a frustrating afternoon in terms of our final product."I feel for the boys because they put a good shift in and they did what we asked of them, on and off the ball."I'm disappointed we're out the cup but it was a free-hit for us."Kilwinning started confidently and had Forfar on the back foot for most of the opening 15 minutes without really troubling goalkeeper Marc McCallum.The visitors were then forced into an early change with injured captain Craig Slater replaced by Callum Moore.Kilwinning kept the pressure on but their momentum was disrupted by a