DORCHESTER Town temporary manager Jody Rivers believes the disappointment at drawing 4-4 with Gosport can be used to spur the Magpies on later this season.

In a stupendous game, Dorchester led three times as Tom Bath bagged a brace to add to Neil Martin and Ben Morris strikes.

However, Gosport’s Ryan Woodford equalised in the 95th minute to deny Dorchester a much-needed victory as both teams finished with 10 men.

Speaking to Echosport, Rivers, whose side now has just one league success in 14 games, said: “The situation we’re in, we don’t know what to feel.

“Before the game if you’d have said we’d have scored four goals, we’d have taken that. If you’d have said we’d have got a point, it would mean a positive step in the right direction.

“To concede with the last kick of the game is a gutter, but the camaraderie and togetherness in that changing room is first class.

“Also, what we are is disappointed that we haven’t won the game. That’s something I feel is vital for the football club to go forward.

“Rather than going in and ranting and raving that we’ve conceded in the last minute, we’ve gone in and looked at it from a positive in that we should’ve won the game.

“We haven’t been in that position for a long, long time. It gives us something to build on (at training) and we’ll take it into the game on Saturday.”

Dorchester visit Swindon Supermarine on Saturday (3pm), with the Wiltshire side currently occupying a play-off place and the Magpies languishing in 21st.