Dover Athletic boss Mitch Brundle says some under-performers won’t play for the club again after 3-1 defeat at home to Weymouth in National League South

Manager Mitch Brundle has vowed some of Dover’s squad won’t play for the club again.

Second-bottom Whites are winless in seven matches after they lost 3-1 at home to fellow early-season National League South strugglers Weymouth on Saturday.

Brundle said: “It’s difficult because we’re not a million miles away. It’s crazy to say after today.

“But put it this way, there won’t be many people in that team that will play again for me.

“It’s down to me because I pick the team - that comes with the job. But there’s too many players under-performing in certain elements and it’s around the basics.

“I’m not asking for world-beaters every week, we know what we’ve got to work with, but we have to do something to make it right.

“I’ll never stop fighting and trying to make sure this goes right.

Report: Dover 1-3 Weymouth

“I believe I’ve got the capabilities to make it right.”

It’s firmly now Brundle’s squad after wholesale summer changes to his side - but the boss concedes some of those brought in have shown they’re unable to perform consistently to the level required.

He explained: “At the minute, with some of the players that we’ve signed from lower levels, they’re not consistent enough to play six or seven games in a row to a good level.

“They have one good game, two bad games, and then you think about changing it. You can say about tinkering with the squad [too much] but it’s about having that consistency basis.

“I’ll take full responsibility because, yeah, they are my signings. The only way we get it right is if I go and get some who are consistent.”

Brundle refused to be drawn much on the decision made by referee George Laflin which saw midfielder Johl Powell sent off for a second bookable offence in first-half stoppage time.