Charlie Knight attacks the Wimborne defence
DORCHESTER TOWN
1	Regan Coward		46
2	Dan Spencer
3	Jake Smeeton		46
4	Harry Montacute
5	Jamie Frampton
6	Adam Taylor
7	Antony Carlile		46
8	Steve Devlin
9	Owain Warlow
10	Warren Byerley		46
11	Charlie Knight
Substitutes
	Mike Hookway		46
	Cassius Newton		46
	Tom Richardson		46
	Rico Wilson		46
	Sam Filkins
	Sean Lillington
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Saturday 10th July 2010
		Wimborne Town	2
		Lloyd 25, Mullins 87
		Dorchester Town XI	0

Magpies crash at Cuthbury

by Ky Capel

An unfamiliar Dorchester side suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Wimborne Town in their opening pre-season friendly.

The county town Magpies fielded a host of trialists with Regan Coward, Steve Devlin, Jake Smeeton, Warren Byerley, Harry Montacute and Jamie Frampton – pulling on a Dorchester shirt for the first time – the only household names on the teamsheet.

Those hoping to win a contract with the Avenue Stadium club were keeper Mike Hookway, wide men Charlie Knight, Owain Warlow and Antony Carlile, midfielder Casius Newton, strikers Rico Wilson and Tom Richardson and under-18 graduates Adam Taylor and Dan Spencer.

The visitors produced a rather disjointed display as a result while the lower-league hosts registered in each half to claim victory.

Boss Ashley Vickers was unperturbed by the outcome, especially as there were so many new faces on show.

He said: “We had 90 per cent of the first-team squad training hard on Saturday morning, doing their fitness work, so the game was an opportunity to look at the trialists.

“I was pleased with their effort and their attitude, and there are one or two things that we can pursue.

“Obviously I would like to win our friendlies but that was a team of trialists with only a few recognised players.

“I was pleased with all of them though and the lads who came in know what’s required. It was a good workout and we’ll learn from it.

“We dominated a lot of the second half but got done on the breakaway. Both of their goals stemmed from our goal-kicks, so the boys have got to keep the ball in the park. It frustrated me last season and it will not happen next season.”

The visiting Magpies fell behind at Cuthbury inside 25 minutes when a Liam Green free-kick was met by an unmarked Ross Lloyd and headed past a helpless Coward.

Devlin was denied an equaliser soon after when his looping header came back off a post. And the same man wasted an even better chance moments later.

Warlow was brought down in the box by home gloveman Alan Walker-Harris but Devlin blazed the spot-kick high over the bar.

Richardson, Wilson, Newton and Frampton all went close in the second period but it was Wimborne who completed the scoring when Perry Mullins beat the advancing Hookway with three minutes to go.