SALISBURY pegged back a two-goal deficit to snatch a thrilling 3-2 victory over Didcot Town last night – but boss Steve Claridge was bewildered that more people didn’t turn up to see it.

Not for the first time at the Ray Mac this season, the match was high on entertainment value, yet it was watched by the Whites’ second lowest attendance of 2016/17, with just 496 filing through the Old Sarum turnstiles.

Despite climbing a level in the football pyramid to the Southern South & West, Salisbury’s attendances are lower now than they were in the Sydenhams Premier Division last year when they waltzed to the title.

“I won’t last a season at this rate,” said Claridge, after his side's heart-stopping fightback.

“Every game here is just incredible, isn’t it? But I cannot believe people, yet again, haven’t turned up.

“What do you want to watch? Is this not the most exciting football you’ve ever seen at this football club? Every game is an absolute cliff-hanger.

“I have to say it’s terrible for the heart. It must be fantastic to watch and yet people don’t want to watch it.

“I’m really disappointed with that. Some 150 to 200 people have chosen not to come tonight.

“If you’re a true fan would you choose Champions League football over this game? You wouldn’t, would you? So I’m disappointed.

“We have got fantastic support but that’s the one thing that has disappointed me.

“We’ve got some people who, if we lose a game, don’t decide to watch us.

“We thought we’d get 600-700 every week, and we got that last year.

“So how the average has gone down this year, serving up some of the football we serve up, I don’t know.”

Salisbury, up to eighth, have no game this weekend as scheduled opponents Swindon Supermarine are in FA Cup action.

They return to the field on Tuesday with the visit of Dorchester Town in the Southern League Cup.