JAY’s JOB ON THE LINE IF REsULTs DON’T IMPROVE

Jay Saunders believes his season sparked play-off talk and job will be under threat although they’ve fallen away,

it’s only their second year in the if Maidstone’s poor run

National League. continues.

Securing a third season at this United have gone 13 National level should still represent success League games without a win and but Saunders said: “We made a while boss Saunders feels let down rod for our own back because we by his players, he says the buck went on a hell of a run earlier in stops with him. the season and crept right up that

Saunders is part of the furniture table. at the Gallagher Stadium after “I wasn’t silly enough to get seven years in charge, taking carried away, I remember saying Maidstone to the top flight of at the time we need to get to 50 non-league football with three points and once you’re safe in this promotions in four seasons. league then you see where it takes

But the manager still feels his job you. will be at risk if he doesn’t halt a “That has to be the aim for us. slump that’s seen Maidstone drop That’s not because we’re not to 16th place, eight points clear of ambitious, I just think it’s where the bottom four. we’re at.

He said: “Obviously my job “Until we’re at a point where we comes into question. You send out don’t lose our best players or we players you’ve got faith in and at and at the moment, I’m being let can go and pick the ones we would the moment there’s players not down by people. I can’t have that. like, I think that’s where we’re at.doingajobforme,sosomething“Soonerorlater,I’msureyou has to change. have to look at things and go, “At the end of the day we have to

“You lose games and it’s on my ‘Hang on, what’s going wrong?’ stop this rot. You try everything. head and I fully appreciate that. and I’m at the head of that because “You don’t want spirits to get too

“However long I’ve been here, it I’m the manager.” low but you get to a point where doesn’t matter, I’m not winning Maidstone’s flying start to the you lose patience.” games of football. That’s 13 games now, which is the worst run I’ve had since I’ve been a manager.

“It hurts me more than anyone else. It’s me that has to go home and bear the brunt.

“I need players that are going to go out there and do a job for me