Portadown manager David Jeffrey issued an apology to the club’s supporters after his side’s winless Premiership run extended to eight matches with a 3-1 loss at Bangor – and declared “we need to learn lessons very quickly”.

The Ports sit bottom of Northern Ireland’s top-flight table with just one point and are now the only team without a league win.

In what has been a torrid run for Jeffrey’s men, Portadown have scored the fewest goals (five) in the Premiership so far this season while no side has conceded more (17).

The Shamrock Park outfit received their third red card of the campaign on Saturday – all three have came in the first half of matches – with Lewis MacKinnon given his marching orders after just 37 minutes.

placeholder image — Portadown manager David Jeffrey. (Photo by David Maginnis/Pacemaker Press)

Bangor led 1-0 at that stage through Lewis Harrison’s opener before second half strikes from Lucas McRoberts and Iestyn Hughes helped Lee Feeney’s side seal maximum points – Oisin Devlin’s own goal proved to be a consolation for Portadown.

Saturday’s success marked Bangor’s first league win of the campaign with Portadown unable to build on picking up a maiden point in Tuesday’s draw with high-flying Linfield.

"Going down to 10 men again doesn’t help us,” Jeffrey told the club’s media channel. “Before the game I talked about concentration and communication...and I was also very clear about needing to be disciplined.

"Yet again, we’ve not been disciplined. Lewis has held his hands up and taken responsibility, but that suddenly puts us behind the eight ball.

"We’ve a great opportunity from Eamon (Fyfe) and we could have got a goal back, it didn’t happen, and down to 10 men in the second half you try and make as much headway as you can, but the two goals we conceded...I’m bitterly disappointed.

"Our supporters probably won’t want to hear me apologising, but all I can do is talk from the heart and say I’m so sorry in terms of what we got today.

"There was a good feeling about the place going into the game, I emphasised as big as Tuesday night was, this was a bigger game, massive game for us.

"We need to learn lessons very, very quickly, because it’s vitally important that the only focus is on what is of best interest to Portadown Football Club.

"I’m disappointed, bitterly disappointed, and when I reflect on a penalty kick that we should have got, how the penalty wasn’t given and how our player was booked.

"It was the same on Tuesday night against Linfield, footage shows we should have had a second penalty and it didn’t happen.

"When things aren’t going for you and going against you, there’s precious little good fortune.”