Guernsey’s Robbie Williams is sent crashing on the touchline. Linesman Peter Davison flags. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0850179)

He said it was ‘disappointing’ to hear members of his island squad were turning out in force for a game that might have left them injured.

‘Most of them know my feelings about it,’ he said.

‘I’d ask them [the players] what are they benefiting from playing at that level of football and putting themselves at risk of getting injured or suspended?

‘Do they want to lose their island chance playing against the likes of Centrals?’

Vance, who was also not amused to hear that Craig Young was playing in Division Two on the same weekend he made himself unavailable for the island side playing away, said the same applied to other players around the island.

Looking back on Thursday’s 1-0 win Vance said it had provided a valuable exercise as he seeks to prune his under-21 squad by four to 18 after today’s Malaya Cup clash against the same opposition.