GEOFF BUTLER'S job as Bashley boss is getting tougher by the day.

Lack of bodies cost the New Forest club dear on Saturday as they crashed 2-1 at home to a ten-man Dorking outfit described by Butler as: "abysmal - the worst I've seen."

To cap a depressing afternoon for the Foresters, they lost striker/ midfielder Danny Gibbons with a broken leg, ruling him out for the rest of the season, while Andy Culliford couldn't last the pace ahead of tomorrow's Gilmore's groin operation which will put him out of the equation for at least a month.

"It's a dire situation. The side's decimated," said Butler. "If there's a worse team in this league than Dorking, I haven't seen them, but we haven't got the bodies to compete.

"Chris Knowles should have come off at half-time with a hamstring problem but he managed to get through 90 minutes and we had no Matt Parnell at the back."

The only light at the end of the tunnel is that Bash have agreed with Eastleigh to loan teenage full-back Sam Wyeth for a month and take young, non-contract striker Barry Mason for the rest of the season after recent good displays for Wessex League outfit BAT.

Relegation-haunted Dorking had Dave Towse sent off on 37 minutes for handling Richard Gillespie's shot on the line.

Initially, it didn't look as if the ref would show him the red card and Butler admitted: "Dorking's bench got uptight with me because I shouted for him to get sent-off. But, I'm sorry, they're the rules of the game!"

After a lengthy delay, Dave Wakefield stepped up to the spot to fire Bash ahead, but the Foresters squandered chance after chance and, bafflingly, had a Dorking own goal disallowed for offside against Gillespie, who was not interfering with play.

Bash were punished by goals from Peter Maynard and Kevin Terry in the 69th and 86th minutes.