Terras in horror show (From Dorset Echo)

Terras in horror show

10:00am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

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JERRY Gill reckons the Weymouth players saw a different side of their new manager after last night’s 4-0 loss at Eastleigh.

The horror show at the Silverlake Stadium saw the Terras gift their hosts four sloppy goals.

The ex-Birmingham full-back was deeply upset with Weymouth’s showing as his brief honeymoon period came to an end.

Gill said: “I said I wouldn’t get carried away after Saturday and last night just showed me that we are well short.

“I had no illusions and I knew it was going to come to light over the next couple of weeks.

“It’s up to us to put it right and try to get some new players in if we can.

“I could rant and rave but the lads have seen a different side to me.

“Eastleigh haven’t really cut us open it was more down to our mistakes.

“I put our set-pieces on the wall and was in there after the game and ripped them down and said ‘what’s the point of me doing it if you are not going to take it on board.’ “It was not a great performance and it is up to us to get it right by the weekend.”

Braces from Richard Gillespie and Spit-fires’ captain Tom Jordan condemned Wey-mouth to their heavy defeat but two bright spots were that teenage strikers Luke Benbow and Lewis Whitehead joined the Terras yesterday.

Benbow, 18, knows Gill from the Birmingham City academy while 17-year-old Whitehead has been playing in the Cambridgeshire Kershaw Pre-mier League, the equivalent to the Dorset Premier League, for Cambridge University Press.

Gill added: “Lewis has done us a favour because we lost Austin Byfield with a burnt hand.

“Luke Benbow is with me at Birmingham and is a technically good player. He came off the bench and showed flashes of what he can do.”

Although Gill was unhappy with the display he hopes to put it right before the Terras face Staines Town on Saturday.

Gill added: “I made my feelings known in the dressing room but I have got to be careful because what I don’t want to do is lose the lads.

“But things need changing and if it upsets people I’m sorry but I am here to succeed as a manager.”

Bridport Reserves will edge closer to their goal of lifting the Dorset Senior Trophy by defeating their Shaftesbury counterparts tonight (7.30pm).

The winners will be rewarded with a semi-final trip to Holt United Reserves on March 13, while Weymouth Sports will host Upwey & Broadwey in the other tie on the same day.

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