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A late Annan Athletic penalty saw them sneak past Forfar at Station Park on Saturday to advance to the play-off finals.

Stefan McLuskey had handed Forfar a goal lead in the game to level the tie 1-1 on aggregate.

The fixture seemed to be heading for extra-time until the visitors were awarded a late penalty which Tony Wallace dispatched.

It means Forfar will spend another season in League Two but manager Irvine says the club can turn around the disappointment in the coming year.

“I found it hard to get the words out to address the players,” the manager told the club's social media channel post-match.

"All I could say to them was to remember how sore the feeling is.

"When you have set-backs in sport, football or whatever, you have to learn from it and it brings you back stronger.

"We’ll come back next season and hopefully get ourselves into a better position where we go and challenge for the title. That’s all I can put to the players and the fans that we will come back next season learning from it, hurting from it and that has to be the motivation and the drive because I have an unbelievable group. They gave me everything throughout the season, I have a great core of a squad with 13 or 14 players already signed up for next year.

"It’s up to myself and my staff to strengthen again.”