BASHLEY made it an incredible nine goals in their two Bank Holiday weekend matches as they put four past Leatherhead yesterday (August 30) after scoring five at Bromley two days earlier.

They are two results that should make the rest of the division sit up and take note.

But as Bash manager Geoff Butler pointed out, with the amount of youngsters he is having to field at the moment, more personnel on the Recreation Ground playing staff has to be his priority.

Butler said: "Full marks to the lads, they were undefeated and we've knocked four past them.

"I thought we'd got over confident when we were 2-0 up and we thought we'd won the game which was just naivety.

"Once you abuse football and take it for granted it sits you on the seat of your pants and that's exactly what we got.

"We invited trouble by being negative and complacent but then we became positive again and we scored two more goals.

"No disrespect to these lads here but they are kids and they're not ready for this yet.

"There is no question I am desperate to bring players into this club."

Bash, who fielded four teenagers, took the lead after 20 minutes when Graeme Gee headed home at the far post from a Dave Wakefield corner.

Just before half time Andy Culliford, who enjoyed an excellent game, tapped in from close range after pacy striker, Richard Gillespie, skinned his man in the left channel to lay on a simple chance.

But Bash took their foot off the gas and let Leatherhead right back into it in the second period.

And they nearly cruised into self-destruction, as the visitors, who were previously unbeaten this term, pulled it back to 2-2.

First, a mysterious penalty was awarded and converted by Dave Stevens after Gee was harshly adjudged to have tugged a shirt in the box.

Then Marc Charles-Smith outpaced the Bash backline to round keeper David Elm and slot home from a tight angle.

Thankfully for the Bash faithful, when Leatherhead levelled matters, it was a wake-up call.

And the New Foresters clawed their way back into the kind of form you would expect from a side that are scoring goals at an excellent rate lately.

Culliford's second of the game was a cracking right-footed strike as he curled home Wakefield's lay-off from the corner of the penalty area to leave the Leatherhead keeper grabbing thin air.

From then on it looked likely that the three points were staying in the New Forest but it wasn't confirmed until the final couple of minutes when Danny Gibbons fed Gee who unselfishly squared for the lively Gillespie, who couldn't miss from three yards to make it 4-2.

Bash are playing the kind of football at the moment that is predictably unpredictable, which is frustrating Butler to a degree, although six points over the holiday period will ease the problem of letting in five goals.

Butler said: "After the break we were awful. We didn't start right, we thought we'd won the game.

"I said to the lads afterwards 'don't do that to me again'.

"These lads are young and they're all right when things are going right. But when things start to go wrong they look like what they are, which is young, inexperienced lads.

"You can't blame the kids though, it's the senior players that you've got to look at.

"When they pulled it back to 2-2 I thought there was only one side that were going to win it and that was Leatherhead.

"Credit the character, commitment and the work rate of the lads though because they dug in and worked very hard. It's been marvellous, we've conceded five goals but we've scored nine in two matches."

Bashley: Elm, Julius, Ferrett, Head (Totczyk 75), Jones, Culliford, Gee, Gough (Toure 58), Gibbons, Gillespie, Wakefield. Unused subs: Harper, Lilley, Proudley.