Jerry Gill

Gill unhappy with Terras showing

Weymouth boss Jerry Gill read the riot act to his players after their 4-0 loss at the hands of Eastleigh on Tuesday night.

The Terras are in a precarious position just one point off the bottom of the Blue Square South and Gill knows he has his hands full trying to rescue their season.

Weymouth did impress their new boss with a win over Lewes on Saturday but at just four points worse off than the Rooks, it was a game they could not have afforded to lose.

Gill told the Dorset Echo: "I said I wouldn't get carried away after Saturday and last night just showed me that we are well short.

"I had no illusions and I knew it was going to come to light over the next couple of weeks.

"It's up to us to put it right and try to get some new players in if we can.

"I could rant and rave but the lads have seen a different side to me.

"Eastleigh haven't really cut us open it was more down to our mistakes.

"I put our set-pieces on the wall and was in there after the game and ripped them down and said 'what's the point of me doing it if you are not going to take it on board.

"It was not a great performance and it is up to us to get it right by the weekend."

Gill was delighted though to have snapped up teenage strikers Luke Benbow and Lewis Whitehead.

18-year-old Benbow is a product of the Birmingham City academy while 17-year-old Whitehead has been playing in the Cambridgeshire Kershaw Pre-mier League for Cambridge University Press.

Gill explained: "Lewis has done us a favour because we lost Austin Byfield with a burnt hand.

"Luke Benbow was with me at Birmingham and is a technically good player. He came off the bench and showed flashes of what he can do."