WITCHAMPTON UNITED 3 WEYMOUTH SPORTS 0 STEVE Alcock questioned Weymouth Sports’ desire and commitment after they crashed to a 3-0 loss at Witchampton United in the Dorset Senior League.

Last year’s second-placed team lie fourth bottom of the table after a terrible start to the new season that has left manager Alcock already questioning his side’s title chances.

It’s a far cry from last week when the Sports boss believed they had “turned the corner” after beating Stourpaine in the league and knocking Easton out of the cup.

“I think we might have turned into a cul-de-sac,” said Alcock. “I just think we lacked the desire and commitment that is needed to beat anyone at any level of football.

“With all due respect to them, we would have turned up at a Division Two or Division Three side and struggled.There was no heart or desire, which was the hardest thing to take.”

The Witches moved up to a third as a result of two goals in the first half and a third after the break and sent Weymouth down to 10th – Sports have won just two of six league games.

However, had Sports secured their first back-to-back league wins of the season then they would have been celebrating a spot in fifth “It’s been a dreadful start,” said Alcock. “It’s been well-documented the number of players we’ve had out.

“If you take out of our side some of the players we didn’t take then you have what I would hope would be a workmanlike team with a reasonable cutting edge up front, but we couldn’t give people the service they needed and the quality was lacking.

“I don’t care where we end up in the league and I didn’t think I’d be saying that this season. But I can’t talk about us in the same breath as Easton, Tintinhull, or even Upwey & Broadwey.”

Sports: Wyatt, Wallace, Austin, Walker, Laidlaw, Hicks, Pattison, Cleal (Evans 46), McConnachie, Rolls, De La Planque.