Forwards were useless, blasts Glovers manager

DARREN Sarll was scathing in his criticism of his Yeovil attackers as the Glovers slumped to a home defeat against Notts County in the National League.

The Magpies had lost their last three games – a run which ended their unbeaten start to the season – but Ruben Rodrigues’ brace eased them to victory and lifted them to ninth in the standings.

County opened the scoring after 17 minutes when Matt Palmer passed to Rodrigues, who burst into the area and found the bottom corner of the net.

Callum Roberts missed a fine second-half chance before goal hero Rodrigues headed in Palmer’s corner with nine minutes left.

Asked about the performance level of his side, Green & Whites boss Sarll admitted: “Nowhere near. It was dross. I was shocked at how many times we mis-controlled it or mis-passed it.

“In the first half our back four and two central midfielders were excellent, but they had to be because the front four played like children. Very, very soft. Very timid.

“It is a little alarming to say the least, we were absolutely useless up front, and we deserved that (bad) reaction from the supporters, by the way.”

Yeovil have a chance to bounce back against Altrincham at Huish Park tomorrow night.

YEOVIL TOWN .................. 0 NOTTS COUNTY ............... 2

■ Bath City were thumped 4-1 at Dorking Wanderers despite taking an early lead in the National League South.

Cody Cooke scored his ninth goal of the season following a foul on Alex Fletcher, but that was as good as it got for the Romans.

Dorking equalised on 20 minutes when Alfie Rutherford converted from a Matt Briggs cross.

Twelves minutes later, Rutherford returned the favour for Briggs to head into the net.

Bath remained in contention until the final ten minutes when James McShane struck twice to sew up all three points.

Elsewhere, Chippenham went down 3-1 at home to Welling.

Daniel Carr put the visitors in front, but Adam Mann equalised shortly before half-time.

However, second-half strikes from Dipo Akinyemi and Che Krabbendam saw Welling to a wellearned victory.

In the National League North, Gloucester City stopped the rot with a 0-0 draw at home to Bradford Park Avenue.

Hereford, however, slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Darlington with Luke Charman netted the only goal on eight minutes.