Weston lose three in a row as Dawes is sent off at Dorking and a late goal wins it at Farnborough

Sunday 1 November 2026 · By Ivor Latimer

Weston-super-Mare have lost three league games in a row, beaten 6–1 at Ebbsfleet United on Saturday 17 October, 2–1 at Farnborough on Wednesday 28 October and 2–0 at Dorking Wanderers on Saturday 31 October, where Will Dawes was sent off.

At Farnborough, Dawes put Weston ahead in the 10th or 11th minute, depending on the source. Weston’s report said that after a Cruyff turn between two defenders he “let fly on his right boot with a shot that arrowed into the bottom corner” for “his first league goal of the campaign”. Weston led at half-time, but Mason Bloomfield equalised nine minutes from time and, “with the final kick of the game”, scored again after Ollie Dewsbury’s diving header was kept out by Harris, according to Weston’s report. The BBC has Bloomfield’s goals in the 81st minute and the 90+6. The attendance was 533.

Weston also issued a statement on Thursday 29 October about the broadcast. The club said: “despite the league and DAZN previously communicating that the match had been selected for live-streaming by DAZN, the broadcast did not happen, and we were not notified of this.”

At Dorking, Dawes was sent off after “a dangerous Will Dawes challenge on George Nikaj”, as Dorking’s report put it. The BBC puts it at 23 minutes and Dorking at around the quarter-hour mark. Dorking, who moved up to seventh with the win, said in their report that further red and yellow cards were shown to Weston’s coaching staff, and that Weston’s goalkeeper saved a Rogalski penalty. Camp scored just before half-time and Rogalski added a second in the 61st minute. The attendance was 1,349. Weston wore black armbands at Dorking in memory of John Western, the club said on its website.

Weston are 15th on 18 points from 14 games, with five wins, three draws and six defeats, and have gone five league games without a win. They have scored 21 goals and conceded 21, a goal difference of zero. They have won four of seven at home, for 14 points, but only one of seven away, for four.

They are three points above 20th-placed Hemel Hempstead Town and seven above 21st-placed Chesham United, who are in the bottom four. The bottom four are relegated, and only the champions are promoted automatically, with second to seventh going into the play-offs.

The abandoned game with Billericay Town will be replayed on Tuesday 15 December at 7.45pm, at the Optima Stadium, which the club called “our final match before Christmas”.

Braintree Town visit on Saturday 7 November, and Weston are then at home to Farnborough in the FA Trophy second round on Saturday 14 November. They visit Tonbridge Angels on Saturday 21 November and host Walton & Hersham on Tuesday 24 November.