DORCHESTER Town boss Steve Thompson felt the Magpies were “all over the place” as Poole Town took a deserved 2-0 win from their Evo-Stik Southern Premier South derby at the Clayson Stadium.

Thompson’s comment was made in relation to a first half an hour in which the Magpies were run ragged by the Dolphins, Tom Killick’s men scoring both goals inside 11 minutes.

Marvin Brooks had a hand in each strike, nudging past Kingsley Latham for the opener before winning a penalty from Harry Kite’s rash challenge, James Constable converting the spot-kick.

The defeat was Dorchester’s eighth in 13 home league games season and Magpies’ manager Thompson admitted his side’s form at the Clayson is “not good enough”.

He told Echosport: “I thought all over the pitch, for the first 30 minutes, we were all over the place. It wasn’t like we were playing a system that we haven’t played before.

“We were playing a 3-5-2 or a 5-3-2 which we’ve played as much as any other system this year, but it was poor all round and we were deservedly 2-0 down after 11 minutes.

“Really, the first 25, 30 minutes was terrible. It’s not good enough – I’ve told the players that.

“We all have to take responsibility, staff, players. That was another shocking home performance.”

Poole, who now have the best away record in the league, deployed a high pressing game that hurried Dorchester, leading to Thompson crediting the Dolphins.

“I just felt they picked up loose ball all over the place, their forwards were getting hold of the ball,” he said.

“The first goal is just one straight ball from the centre-half, a 40, 50-yard ball which has cleared our back three and (Brooks) had the freedom to come in and stick it in.

“I’m very disappointed that first goal. We were chasing shadows and it was a silly tackle (from Kite), he probably thought he was going to shoot inside the box.

“But when you’re tackling from behind that desperate, it’s a 99 per cent chance you’re going to give away a penalty and that’s exactly what happened.

“The first 30 minutes was awful, but the next 60 wasn’t good. The solace I can find is that other times when we’ve played that poorly we’ve capitulated but we didn’t do that.

“It’s strange, because you get beaten 6-0 by Farnborough and have about seven or eight chances yourself but then you get beaten 2-0 and you’ve not even made their keeper make a save, which is worse.

“For me, that was abject. Nothing to praise at all. We had a good five minutes at the start of the second half, but that’s it. It’s nowhere near good enough – the players know that.

“From all of us, it’s got to be a lot better.”

Dorchester worked Poole goalkeeper Luke Cairney on just three occasions of note and Thompson pulled no punches in his assessment of the Magpies’ attack.

He said: “It’s a lack of creation for sure, quite possibly a lack of energy, a lack of intelligence.

“Sometimes you get games like this where there’s very few chances, but we can have no arguments. That’s a lack of creativity.

“It looked like men v boys. Even in the second half Poole will probably say they didn’t play that well, and they didn’t have to because we gave them no problems.

“I’m unbelievably disappointed in the performance in a local derby against a team that are two or three points above us.”