DORCHESTER 4 Groves 1, Moss 63, 68, Forbes 76

HAVANT & W 3 Williams 27, Tiryaki 70, Pearce 77

RYAN Moss experienced every emotion in a seven-goal thriller at the Jewson Stadium tonight.

After setting up Matt Groves to open the scoring after a mere 34 seconds, the Magpies’ striker netted two second-half goals to give Dorchester a 3-1 lead, with Manny Williams on target for Havant & Waterlooville.

Substitute Mustafa Tiryaki closed the gap before Moss provided another assist – this time for Ivan Forbes to extend the advantage once again.

Sam Pearce set up a nervy finale with a fifth goal in the space of 14 minutes while Moss was harshly sent off in the closing stages.

But the Magpies held on to record their first win since the opening day of the Blue Square South campaign.

Roy O’Brien received a boost ahead of kick-off with the return to fitness of Nick Crittenden. The Magpies’ manager kept faith with keeper Ryan Northmore but Phil Walsh dropped to the bench with Moss the preferred man.

Ollie Barnes was also drafted in to cover the unavailable Mark Jermyn.

The dismay from Saturday’s 4-0 defeat to Worcester was quickly evaporated as the Magpies forged ahead after only 34 seconds.

Forbes pulled the ball back from the left side, Moss got it under control, teed up strike partner Groves and he placed his effort into the bottom right corner.

The Hawks almost pulled themselves level in the sixth minute but former Magpie Wes Fogden was thwarted by Northmore from eight yards.

Havant & Waterlooville were now forcing the issue but it was the hosts who next had the ball in the net, only to be denied by the referee.

Ashley Vickers headed Crittenden’s corner on to a post before Groves tucked away the rebound. However, Brett Huxtable penalised the Magpies’ assistant-manager for an apparent foul.

Good build-up play by the visitors unlocked the home defence on 20 minutes, but Northmore made a great save from Fogden to maintain Dorchester’s lead before Steve Walker blazed the follow up over the top.

Back came the Magpies and Forbes sent a 25-yard drive narrowly over Aaron Howe’s crossbar.

But just five minutes later, the Hawks finally found a way past Northmore. Fogden found himself free on the left and laid the ball off for the lethal Williams, who fired past the county town stopper for his 10th goal of the season.

The end to end action continued though, with Forbes going close again. This time the Portuguese winger broke from his own half, attacked visiting right-back Jake Newton before cutting inside and firing a low shot at goal which Howe pushed away for a corner.

The action died down somewhat as the half drew to a close but emotions remained high with Vickers and Williams almost coming to blows and finding themselves in the referee’s notebook at the interval.

The intensity increased shortly after the break when Walker went down in the Magpies’ area under the challenge of the retreating Forbes, and Huxtable waved away the cries for a penalty.

Williams then had the opportunity to score from almost exactly 12 yards out but after Northmore had kept out ex-county town striker Steve Hutchings’ effort, the man who grabbed the equaliser could only pull his effort wide.

Jamie Gleeson’s weak header presented Walker with a half-chance in the 57th minute. Fortunately for the former, the latter’s toe poke towards goal was off target.

The Hawks were made to pay for their missed chances as the Magpies regained their advantage just past the hour through Moss.

The Dorchester forward peeled away from his marker with ease to nod home Ian Selley’s free-kick, which Moss himself won.

After waiting five games for his first goal of the campaign, Moss bagged his second only five minutes later. Having forced a fine save from Howe with a left-foot thunderbolt the former Bashley man met Gleeson’s resultant corner to give the Magpies breathing space at 3-1.

However, the deficit was reduced almost immediately. Ex-Terra Shaun Wilkinson was allowed time and space to shoot from 25 yards and after Northmore could only parry the shot, substitute Tiryaki gobbled up the loose ball.

Calls for Coward greeted that goal but the home gloveman made amends by denying Tiryaki an equaliser soon after.

And it proved a crucial stop as just moments later Forbes got in on the act – being set up by Moss after a mazy run from the pacey wide man was halted by the last defender.

O’Brien must have thought he could start to sit comfortably but within 60 seconds it was 4-3 as Sam Pearce fired in a Wilkinson corner from close-range.

Neither side created any clear-cut openings in the final stages but in a bizarre twist Moss was dismissed for a minor scuffle with Ian Simpemba – much to the bemusement of everyone in the ground.

Magpies: Northmore, Bowles, N Martin, Selley, Barnes, Vickers, Crittenden, Gleeson, Moss, Groves, Forbes (Walsh 90). Subs not used: Smeeton, Montacute, Nodwell, Coward.

Havant & W: Howe, Newton, Pearce (Nightingale 83), Walker, oweHowGasson, Simpemba, Fogden, Wilkinson, Williams, Hutchings (Tiryaki 64), Woodford. Subs not used: R Martin, MacDonald, Ashmore.