Eyemouth were unlucky to come away pointless from their latest East of Scotland First Division clash, when they hosted Midlothian outfit Easthouses Lily at Warner Park. In a very competitive game Eyemouth had chances in the early stages, with Johnny Simpson and Stuart Coyle unable to capitalise. They did take the lead however, in the 26^th minute, when a Scott Agnew long ball up the park caught out the defence and Eyemouth centre forward Andrew Sword hit it with a peach of a shot to lob Young in the visitor’s goal. But Easthouses came back, levelling the score on 36 minutes when they were awarded a free kick in their own half. A floated ball from Lily debutant Ryan McQueenie found the head of William Kidd after Dean Avery in the Eyemouth goal tried to catch the ball over a crowd of players. It bounced off Kidd’s head to Jonathan Baigrie, who levelled the score with a header past Avery. Easthouses took the lead in the 70^th minute after a bizarre refereeing decision saw the visitors awarded a goal before the ball crossed the line. The ref blew his whistle as a Daniel Watson shot rolled along the goal line after hitting the post. The visitors were up in arms as they assumed the whistle was for offside, but the ref gave a goal leaving Eyemouth baffled. The Fishermen were disorientated and just three minutes later the visitors made it three, Craig Stupart finding the back of the net with a good finish, leaving United with an uphill battle, made all more difficult when Thiago Ferreira saw red for the second time this season after raising his hand to a player right in front of the ref. Eyemouth battled away and some good play resulted in reducing the deficit through Mark Windram. The Fishermen had more chances with Simpson and Coyle again in the thick of it. Lily held out nervously for the last 10 minutes as Eyemouth piled on the pressure, looking to take something from the game, but it wasn’t to be. Eyemouth manager Carl Hudson was left disappointed. “At the end of the day you get judged on results, not performances,” he said, adding that consistency has been the big issue for Eyemouth this season. “The consistency aspect of our season has been totally lacking,” Hudson admitted. “You can’t get consistency when having to change the team all the time because of suspensions. Discipline has been a big problem that has let us down again this season. Admittedly there have been a few times when some refs have been quick to bring cards out but usually it’s the same for both teams.” The Eyemouth gaffer was left baffled by Easthouses second goal, which he described as “a very strange decision” from the man in black. “Their players were going mad because they thought he’d blown for offside, that’s how early he blew.” Hudson insisted. Eyemouth will next meet Premier Division side Edinburgh University in the second round of the League Cup at Warner Park on Saturday, and looking ahead to the tie Hudson said it will be a tough game. “At times we play some tremendous football but I’m pretty disappointed with the consistency aspect, not getting it week in week out. I was hoping for much better things,” he added.