With nine games remaining, the Kent club sit 13 points clear of the battle to avoid the drop but Manager Liam Daish is refusing to admit that the Fleet are already safe for another season.
Speaking to BBC Radio Kent Daish said: “ We won’t be counting on anything until we’re mathematically certain of avoiding relegation, we’re now within our last 10 games and I want us to finish strong.”Daish’s side began the season in indifferent form, picking up just one victory in their opening 10 matches. However Daish, who guided Ebbsfleet to playoff success last year, is insistent that the Kent club’s slow start will be considered irrelevant if the Fleet can engineer a strong finish to the campaign.
He continued: “It doesn’t matter what you have done in the first 10 league games, what sticks in people’s minds about players is what they do in the last 10 games of the season.”
Six of Ebbsfleet’s remaining nine games are against teams in the lower half of the Blue Square Premier table, and the former Cambridge defender is looking to accumulate as many points as possible in order to cement the Fleet’s mid-table position.
Daish added: “I want us to amass as many points as we can and finish as strongly as we can, that’s what we will continue to do.”
One of Ebbsfleet’s main downfalls to their relegation during the 2009/10 campaign was their inconsistency away from home. But after three successive wins away from Stonebridge Road, Daish has been left delighted by the Kent club’s recent run of results.
He concluded: “We’ve won our last three away games which is massive, we’re up to forty-six points which is terrific, but we’ve still got a bit of work to do and we want to keep our foot on the pedal.”
In slightly more disappointing news, Daish has confirmed that goalkeeper Preston Edwards will need to have an operation on his ankle which will rule him out of the rest of the season. Stand-in ‘keeper Lance Cronin will continue to wear the number one shirt in Edwards' absence.
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