Play-Offs Still A Tall Order For Fleet, Admits McMahon

Yesterday, the Fleet recovered from a Dover Athletic equaliser in the last minute to grab the Kent derby honours in stoppage time thanks to Andy Drury.

The big win moved McMahon’s men to within four points of the Whites in the final play-off position whilst Fleet still have games in hand.

It’s been a long time coming for Ebbsfleet to taste victory over Dover on home soil - 40 years to be exact - but it was worth the wait for McMahon.

He told the club’s website: “My team’s got unbelievable character. People talk about other things and they ignore how much character the team’s got.

“We were awesome, absolutely awesome to a man, every single one of them including the lads who haven’t been playing very much. I was very, very proud of them today to put that performance in and they showed brilliant character.”

On their play-off aspirations, McMahon added: “I’m not really looking at it. If we can finish higher, brilliant.

“But you look at the fixtures we’ve got coming up and we’ve got some tough games: Macclesfield, Wrexham, we’ve got to go to Barrow, got to go to Gateshead and Torquay, really tough games. Sutton have got to come here as well.

“There’s no pressure on us, I think we can probably upset a few teams in the play-off positions. We can play with a freedom that maybe the other teams can’t and we’ll be playing on that a little bit as well.”

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