Victory over champions Ebbsfleet United guaranteed Vanarama National League South football for Welling United leaving manager Warren Feeney pleased.

After the game, Warren Feeney said: “The biggest thing was the performance of the players today. They were all honest and I was really pleased bar the first twenty-five to thirty minutes.

“I said to the players in there, we respect Ebbsfleet, they’re champions for a reason but if you look at the top six we’ve probably taken something from them. It’s the teams down the bottom that we’ve struggled against. That’s a mentality thing that we need to change. I know going into these games that there’s no problems with my boys.”

His team still has two games to play and he won’t start to take stock until after that. He added: “I haven’t (made any decisions) because I don’t want to tempt fate with things. I want to get the games out of the way first.”

“There’s still two games to focus on. The players are contracted for a season so we’ll get these two games done and we’ll assess everything after that.”

Although there have been suggestions that the training routine may change to evenings to attract players who have day time jobs, nothing has been set in stone.

Feeney said: “We are looking at all avenues. It’s one that we’ll have to assess and see what’s easiest. You want a core of players. You want stability. You don’t want to keep chopping and changing. We’ll sit down now with the board and see how we’re going to move forward.

“It’s a slow road. No-one gives you the right to go and win football games, go and win leagues, go and win titles. We’ve got a budget that will be competitive but we’ve chopped it (from where it was) because the thing is stability. You just have to look at Ebbsfleet. They’ve been chomping at it for five years and they’ve got there this year.

“It’s all about progression.” he continued. “We’ve got a squad of players and it’s about keeping some of those players now. We try and do things right. We try to be professional. I want to treat them like the top players but they’ve got to buy into it, Come the end of the season we’ll assess it and see where we want to go.”

Feeney isn’t someone who likes to go out on a Saturday night, preferring downtime with a glass of wine. He confirmed: “It is draining, I’m being honest. It is draining. I was an aggressive player myself and I hated getting beaten and it’s probably worse when you’re a manager.”

“That’s two hundred odd games that I’ve managed now all over the place in different leagues and it gets harder and harder.”

Picture supplied by Dave Budden.