These days, stoppage-time minutes give Elgin City a sense of dread.
So it was again for the Borough Briggs team as they lost another match in added time on Saturday, against Stenhousemuir.
It had taken a monumental second-half effort to repair the damage of the first as the Moray team squared the match at 2-2 from 2-0 down.
But John Paul McBride’s last-gasp winner for Stenny echoed Elgin’s despair at losing at least a dozen points this season during time added on.
Assistant manager Keith Gibson admitted: “It was difficult to take, losing another game in injury time.
“It was just a ball getting stood up to the back post, a free header, then a scramble and it’s in the net.
“But we’ve got to try and take the positives. Looking at the league table we are in the same position as we were before the game, two points off fourth place.
“We could be sitting fourth tonight and that was the incentive we gave the players before the game, if results went our way.
“It just makes next week’s game at Stirling all the more important.
“We know what the target is, and it’s 15 games to go now to get that target.
“We’ve still got huge belief that the squad we’ve got out there can do it, but we have to learn how to win games ugly.”
Elgin made their final signing of the January window by bringing in Dundee United defender Ross Graham on loan for a place on the bench.
Defender Darryl McHardy has been loaned out to Rothes to give him games.
Stenny made a dream start when Spence stole in behind the home defence and fired high past keeper Tom McHale for the opening goal with just 60 seconds on the clock.
Elgin striker Shane Sutherland, who will rejoin Caley Thistle in the summer, went close a couple of times, but it was 0-2 on 37 minutes.
McHale saved brilliantly twice from Ryan Blair and Mark McGuigan, but the loose ball fell to McGuigan to force home at the third attempt.
Elgin dominated the second half but their efforts were thwarted until two goals in a minute brought the match level.
Substitute Daniel MacKay, on-loan from Inverness, saw a deflected long-range effort deceive keeper Graeme Smith on 78 minutes.
Then, from a corner, centre-back Stephen Bronsky steered the ball home to make it 2-2.
Both teams went for the winner but Stenny grabbed it in stoppage time when Spence shot home after sub Connor McBride headed into his path.