Coventry Bees boss Gary Havelock was disappointed after his side lost 46-44 at Leiecester in an Elite League fixture on Monday night.
“It’s very disappointing, because it’s a meeting we really should have won," said Havelock.
“We missed Josh Bates tonight, and it sums our season up really – we’ve talked about the consistency before, we go to somewhere like King’s Lynn and win, and you look at the teams on paper with no disrespect to Leicester and this is one we should have won.
“I wasn’t unhappy with Jason being excluded in the crash, but I was with the referee pulling the race back at the start for no reason. He was dialled-in and dropped his clutch faster than everyone else – it was poor refereeing.
“Fair play to Leicester, though, they kept at it and they’ve been the whipping boys for the last couple of seasons but there was plenty of fight in their team, so congratulations to them.”