YORK City boss Martin Foyle said his side’s 2-1 defeat at Fleetwood Town was a “major let-down”.

After the Minstermen picked up their first victory of the Blue Square Bet Premier season against Altrincham on Saturday, Foyle bemoaned a subsequent display in Lancashire which he said “wasn’t good enough”.

The City boss said: “I am majorly disappointed. It was very lacklustre and I can’t stick up for them. We worked on certain things and we didn’t seem to have the energy levels there.

“We made one or two changes to freshen it up because one or two were struggling but we huffed and puffed and certainly didn’t rise to the challenge.

“I can’t (work it out). Some of them are on their last legs, which is surprising because we didn’t really do anything (on Sunday). We just went through a little bit of shape.

“They had some big lads and I thought their experience shone through.

“You look at McNulty at the back and Curtis up front.

“There are no legs about them but they are very clever in the way they read the game and the way they position themselves.”

York did belatedly pressure Fleetwood after Gareth Seddon’s header and Magno Vieira’s chip, following a terrible back pass from James Meredith, gave the home side a 2-0 lead.

Greg Young’s header gave City hope and he came close to adding an equaliser, but Foyle added the Minstermen would not have deserved a share of the spoils.

“I think it would have been a bit unfair on them (to have nicked a point),” he said. “I just thought we got into the final third and we can’t retain possession – we can’t build two or three passes.

“It is something I have to look at. It’s not about formation. I know people say we are 4-3-3 but they played 4-3-3 so why is there’s working and ours not?

“We didn’t win the battles, we didn’t get among people and it was a major let down after Saturday’s good result.”

He continued: “It wasn’t good enough and I can understand the supporters grumbling and moaning there because I have, Andy Porter has and the players have actually criticised themselves.

“I thought we were moaning and groaning too much during the game. There was too much arm-waving and a little bit of the blame culture – someone giving the ball away but blaming someone else. I will certainly stamp that out.”

Foyle explained he left winger Peter Till who had impressed against Altrincham, out of the starting line-up because he believed the ex-Walsall player was tired following his weekend exertions.

He said: “Tilly has played one game and he was tired. I made that decision and I was hoping I would get a good 30 minutes out of him because he hasn’t played that much football.

“Peter Till will be playing Saturday but I thought this game was too quick for him and he looked tired. We live and die by our decisions and maybe it was the wrong one.”