DORCHESTER Town manager Steve Thompson admitted the Magpies’ 5-0 Ridgeway derby loss to Weymouth had been “a totally inept performance” from players and management.

The Terras were 4-0 up at half-time and picked up their momentum from an eighth-minute Kyle Egan backpass that fell straight to Brandon Goodship, who rounded Kingsley Latham to score.

Josh McQuoid and Ben Thomson later added clinical braces as Dorchester were completely overrun at the Bob Lucas Stadium.

Speaking to Echosport, a dejected Thompson conceded the contest had been “men v boys” and that the Magpies were “outplayed”.

He said: “No excuses, we’ve been totally outplayed in the first half and can have no arguments about going in 4-0 down.

“A totally inept performance from us, so we all have to take the blame. I’m not the sort of manager that just blames the players.

“The players do have to take some blame, but the manager has to take the blame as well. We all suffer together.

“All I can do is apologise to the fans for that performance on behalf of myself, the management staff and the players because it was inept, terrible – like men v boys at times.

“That’s something that we’ve got to try and sort out.”

Thompson believes the Magpies’ performance was “even worse” than the 1-0 defeat to Met Police on the opening day of the season.

He said: “We’ve had two very poor performances in the five games this season, I thought Met Police was poor, but this was even worse.

“I’m taking nothing away from Weymouth, they’re a good team and they thoroughly deserved their win, but we were terrible and got what we deserved.”

He added: “There’s very few positives. When I look at the performances of the players that came off at half-time, I’m not going to name names, there was possibly one player who had a decent (game) or something resembling a five or a six.

“We were too casual in giving the ball away for the first goal, another set-piece for the second. Their right-hand side then became increasingly a problem.

“The third came from there, which we tried to sort out after half-time with the substitution. The fourth (McQuoid) went past two like they weren’t there.

“Defensively shocking and attackingly shocking because the keeper hasn’t had to make a meaningful save. Ash Pope had a shot with 15 or 20 to go but that wasn’t a meaningful save that he had to make.

“It was straight at him and even though we got in good positions second half about six times in the last 20 minutes, nothing came of it.

“There was no quality, no punch, no purpose. I can’t find any positives really. I said to the players at half-time ‘you could be on the end of seven if you don’t liven up’ – that could’ve happened.

“In the end we have to take it on the chin, it’s 5-0 and Weymouth deserved to win 5-0. I’ve got no arguments about the score.”