The Rocks boss has had a tough time since arriving in the summer with Andy Awford to lead the club into a new era.

The first two months of the season have been a nightmare, with only one league and one cup win in a total of 14 games to show for their efforts.

Jenkins has also seen his playing budget hit by the fire which has left Nyewood Lane without a clubhouse. It used to bring in up to a third of the club's income.

And he has found it impossible to field a settled team – with injuries, suspension and players failing to commit to the club all hitting his plans.

But he has promised that, although the FA Cup exit to Burgess Hill last week left him 'disgruntled and hurt', he is not about to walk away and leave the job to someone else.

Instead he hopes to be given two to three years to finish the job he has started.

The latest defeat came on Saturday as Bath City won 2-0 in a Conference South encounter at Nyewood Lane, leaving the Rocks second from bottom with only one win from 11 league games.

It was a significant improvement on the embarrassing Cup loss at home to Burgess Hill four days earlier, but Jenkins admitted it was still not good enough.

Now the manager has reiterated how hard he and his backroom team are working to improve the squad – and turn around fortunes on the pitch.

"We're trying to find a winning formula. We're finding it a difficult job, but are not getting disheartened," he said.

Asked if he had considered quitting because of the difficulties he had faced, Jenkins said: "Not really. After the Burgess Hill defeat, I felt very disgruntled and hurt – hurt by the criticism.

"But that comes with the territory, I know that.

"A manager will get praise when his team are doing well and criticism when they're not.

"The buck stops with me, but I want supporters to realise that the lack of results is not for the want of trying on our part.

"I'm in it for the long haul and I and my staff are working harder and harder all the time to get it right.

"I've got other areas in my life, a young family and a business to run.
"But I've been putting in a lot of extra hours for the good of the football club.

"I've taken afternoons off work to go and watch reserve games.
"We are all watching a lot of games to scout for players and see how other clubs are faring.

"I owe it to the hardcore of fans who turn up week in, week out to do that.

"I'm not going to quit. I like to think I'm two to three months into a job that could last two to three years. We want to get a good side playing good football, and we know we are not there yet."

Jenkins asked the whole squad to meet supporters in the nearby sports club after Saturday's game, and said he realised how vital the relationship was between players and fans.

And he said if everyone pulled together, the longer-term future of the Rocks could be healthy.

Plans are being drawn up for a new clubhouse to replace the fire-ravaged one and Jenkins wants to be involved – and wants fans to be involved – in developing the new building, which the club hope will be bigger and better than its predecessor.

Demoliton is set to be carried out within the next month, and a new facility will take around six months to build.

In the meantime, the hunt for new players goes on – and Jenkins said he hoped to have one or two new faces in the squad for Tuesday's Setanta Shield trip to Lewes and the following Saturday's league game at St Albans.

Another striker, an attacking midfield and a wideman are all still on the shopping list.

Jenkins said: "We are hugely disappointed by recent results and still want to improve the squad.

"In the main, we want young, fit, hungry players, perhaps from league clubs.

"We're making too many individual errors and our more experienced players have not been carrying us through, which they need to do."

Midfielder Scott Harris has decided he cannot continue at Bognor's level and has left the club.

Utility man Simon Jackson has also been released, while midfielder James Archer has an ankle injury.