BASEMENT-BOYS Sturminster Newton United will no doubt make the trip down to the Bob Lucas Stadium tomorrow (3pm) with much trepidation.

The Cherries have lost all five of their opening Magna Dorset Premier League games, conceding 17 goals in the process, so a clash against a buoyant Weymouth Reserves side (3pm), who hammered Swanage Town & Herston 10-1 last Saturday, is far from an ideal fixture.

United’s poor start to the season was compounded last weekend by an 8-1 spanking at home to reigning champions Hamworthy Rec-reation but Terras’ boss Brendon King is refusing to read anything into that result and instead has warned his men about the dangers of complacency.

He said: “Stur struggled last year and people will look at them down the bottom at the moment and expect us to beat them but football does not always work like that and I think tomorrow we will learn more about the lads in terms of their temperaments.

“They showed great character to come back from 2-0 down to win at Bridport Reserves and superb professionalism to go out in the second half against Swanage last week and continue to do the right things despite being four up at half-time.

“But tomorrow it will all be about their mindsets, intensity and concentration levels. You tend to learn more about those things in games like tomorrow’s than you do against the big sides when the players are more naturally up for it.”

New-signing Warren White is expected to be included in the Terras’ ranks tomorrow, along with Scott Dixon, Alex Halloran and Jordan Vincent, who has been recovering from injury.

Goalkeeper Nick Carroll will also drop down from the first-team squad to get some minutes under his belt while Ashley Weeks goes in the other direction. John Litherland misses out through work commitments while another new boy, Callum Ross-Jennins, is unlikely to feature.

Terras (from): Carroll, Robinson, Tribe, Whyton, Poole, Dixon, Vincent, Taylor, Richardson, Reiffer, Ironside, Halloran, Rousell, White, McKechnie, Head.