Truro City boss Lee Hodges said he was disappointed to have come away from the weekend’s match at Dover with ‘nothing’, despite seeing his side put in a good performance.

City lost the match 3-1 thanks to goals from Dover’s George Purcell, Jemal Johnson and Billy Bricknell.

Despite this though boss Lee Hodges admitted he couldn’t have aksed for much more from his team.

“"We played really well and it was a big disappointment to come away with nothing, but that's football, he said.

“Last week we didn't put in such a good performance but still saved a point against Salisbury, and this time I could hardly have asked for more from the lads but it was all to no avail.

"I was particularly pleased to see them doing consistently well throughout the 90 minutes. So often this season we have played well for 45 minutes and then gone off the boil. At Dover, we were camped in their half for long periods and apart from the goals Ollie Chenoweth was rarely troubled. Dover are pushing for the play-offs, but we were there to win the game and I got a lot of encouragement from the performance.”

Hodges also felt his side should have been awarded a second penalty in the match just before half-time. If it had been given it would given Truro a great opportunity to equalise before half-time.

“I thought the ref did well and there was just the one contentious decision from our point of view,” said Hodges.

“Just before half-time, when we were 2-1 down, Scott Walker took a free-kick and one of their players leaned into it and handled, but the ref claimed he had not moved and the ball had struck him. That's not the way we saw and it’s not often you see all ten of our outfield players surrounding the ref, but that's the way it was this time because that's how convinced they were that it should have been a penalty. If we had equalised at that point, then who knows how the second half could have gone.”