Wendron United manager Jack Greenwood said there was no way his side deserved to go through after suffering a 6-1 thrashing at home to Torpoint Athletic in the fourth round of the Cornwall Senior Cup.

Wendron earned a late reprieve into the fourth round after Callington Town were kicked out of the competition for fielding a suspended player in their third-round tie, but their reprieve lasted one game following a comprehensive defeat to the east Cornwall side on Saturday.

The Dron shaded the first 20 minutes but found themselves four goals down at the break thanks to strikes from Danny Zalick, Gary Hird, Mike Lucas and Lewis Young.

Zalick added a second after the break before TJ Walter pulled one back for Wendron, with substitute Owen Raven completing the rout eight minutes from time.

"I think if they fielded a suspended player today we would ask for them to look at one of our players to see if we had a suspended player as well, as there's no way we deserve to go through based on that," Greenwood said.

"It's not often you get two bites of the cherry in a cup competition and there's no way we deserve to go through after today.

"It's a free game, we would have had the weekend off. The positives are that we've tried a new shape we wouldn't have tried otherwise, Mike [O'Neil, assistant] and I have probably learned a few things about a few different players today and we're one game wiser than we would have been.

"It's a shame we haven't made the most of the opportunity but I was always slightly embarrassed about the fact that we were here because we weren't great against Callington.

"We deserved to lose that game and to find ourselves still in the cup is a slight embarrassment, but at least we made sure we were out of it after today's performance!"

"We felt hard done by"

Greenwood was disappointed with how side reacted to a fortuitous opening goal, with defender Scott Palmer's slip allowing Zalick plenty of time and space to pick his spot and fire past goalkeeper Dan Stedman.

"It felt like on the first goal that Scott had an unlucky slip or got pushed, I don't know, but the issue there is then we felt hard done by, and instead of rolling our sleeves up and getting on with it we wanted everyone to feel sorry for us," he said.

"It was a 15-minute spell that killed us and we've had that a lot over the years but we've managed to eradicate that more recently, but not today.

"It's almost like we think that because we're the better side and on top we deserve something from it, and when it doesn't go our way we put our arms out and go, 'Why is that the case, why isn't it happening for us', and we just feel sorry for ourselves rather than just getting on with it."

"We've gifted them goals"

Despite shipping six goals in what was a comprehensive defeat, Greenwood felt the score was harsh on his side, who were arguably the better side until the first goal went in.

"I thought the front two linked up quite well in the first half with the midfielders getting on the ball and looking quite dangerous," he said. "Defensively we looked solid but struggling a little bit with how high their wingers were, but they weren't really causing us any problems.

"It'd be easier to take if they were miles better than us and if they battered us constantly from the first whistle to the 45th and we came in 4-0 down at half-time because they're just a better side.

"They're a good side, don't get me wrong, and I don't want it to come across disrespectful because we've just taken a 6-1 hammering off them, but they're not 6-1 better than us.

"They've proved that they're better than us today because they've been more ruthless and we've gifted them goals and that's the really frustrating thing."