POPPIES manager Ken Vaughan hauled off his own son during a dismal 4-1 Wessex League Premier loss against Lymington.

Three of Lymington’s goals were born of a defensive ineptitude that angered Poppies boss Vaughan during a performance every bit as wretched as the result it secured.

It was like a scene from the Keystone Cops as the festival of unforced errors saw goalkeeper Vaughan junior and defender Gareth Batchelor gift Lymington a 2-0 lead inside the opening 13 minutes.

Lee New pounced for the opener after Vaughan had spilled a routine Ed Stacey strike before Davis seized on Batchelor’s suicidal headed backpass to double their lead.

Fawzi Saadi missed a sitter on the stroke of half-time before Vaughan was again betrayed by his own handling on 55 minutes as the ball squirmed through his grasp from Steve Allen’s shot, allowing Davis to add a third.

Enough was enough for his manager and father, with the Poppies stopper unceremoniously hauled off and replaced by Jamie Bray.

Davis added his third and Lymington’s fourth in the closing stages before Martin Warren laid claim to netting the goal of the game.

But that was scant consolation for a club on course to surrender without a fight the only unbroken stay in the top flight of the Wessex since its inception in 1986.