Steve Tilson was left to rue major decisions going against Southend United in their defeat at Yeovil Town.

The Blues chief had nothing but praise for the effort of his players, but felt the red card shown to Sean Morrison cost them getting something out of the game.

"The officials have ruined the game today," Steve told Blues Player.

"I haven't seen the DVD of the game, but it looks like Adam Barrett was coming back to cover when Sean Morrison was sent off.

"I don't think it was a free kick when Yeovil scored and apparently their player has handballed it in.

"I thought the lads were excellent today and felt we deserved something out of the game, especially playing with 10 men for so long.

"The referee told Sean four times that he was only going to book him, but then shows him a red card and that has cost us the game.

"There were three major decisions and they have all gone against us.

"Steve Mildenhall made some important saves in the first half for us and thought Yeovil had run out of ideas in the second half.

"I'm so disappointed, but we have to solider on and get back to winning ways against MK Dons on Friday."