It was an unhappy day for Bridport boss Rob Marquis who saw Bitton record a 7-0 win over the Bees on Saturday afternoon.

Speaking to Bridport News Sport about the performance, Marquis said: “I thought we were unfortunate to be 2-0 down at half time, we were unlucky with the manner of the goals in the first half especially. Their first goal, our defender slipped, their player nicked it and put it in. The second was an intercepted goal kick. But overall, I thought we competed well, it certainly didn’t feel like second versus bottom.”

On the response at half time he said: “I thought at half time we were a bit hard done by, I told the players to have a ‘nothing to lose’ mentality about it. Bitton managed to grab the third goal early in the second half and after the goal, some of the players were a bit slow to react, did the wrong things, not tracking, giving the ball away and tired up. Five of their goals came from our possession!”

Speaking about this weekend’s available team, Marquis said: “The 13 that turned up, all credit to them, they stepped up and did well. We had a few that became unavailable. I’m grateful to Josh Lucas who was in goal from Portland United so a big thanks to him and Portland.”

And on the next game against Mousehole the manager said: “It will be another tough game, we will be working hard in training, the aim will be to cut out the errors and look for an improvement.”

Bridport play Mousehole at St Mary's Field this Saturday, December 4 - kick-off 3pm.