Herne Bay boss Steve Lovell was a relieved manager on Tuesday night as his side came from behind to beat Three Bridges to end a miserable run of results for the Bay and now he wants to maintain that form.

The midweek 4-3 win was the Bay’s first win in eight games, a run that had seen just a single point taken from the twenty-one available but a run that has seen the Bay face favourites Ramsgate twice as well as both Sittingbourne and Sheppey United who are both chasing promotion. 

“Tuesday was a very good all-round performance,” Lovell told KSN this week.  

“I don’t think that our performances in general have been that bad but the results against some of the top teams in the League have gone against us. 

“Tuesday was a good win to have and was needed by everybody. We’ve been unlucky with some decisions along with injuries and suspensions, I know everyone goes through them during a season, so hopefully that will be out of the way and we can concentrate now going forward and build for the rest of the season.” 

“You do like playing against the best sides but maybe on the run we’ve had back-to-back. There are a lot of good sides in the League this year and it’s made the League quite condensed.  

“There are a number of teams playing for the play-offs and I think it will be like that for the rest of the season. But the run that we have been on against the “better” sides if you like has meant a tough few weeks, but it’s all experience for our younger players in the team and hopefully now we can push on and improve.” 

“The experience that we’ve had with these games so quickly one after the other I am sure will give the youngsters good experience and they will have learned through it.  

“When you are up against it, you do see true character and that is something that the boys have never been short of with their endeavor, their work-rate and even on Tuesday and after the run we have been on, to concede a dubious penalty in the first eight minutes and go behind, you are questioning then what their thought process will be!  

“But the way they fought back to 2-1 up and then 3-2 down, they still found a way to win the game 4-3 which for me shows the character that we do have within the Club, within the squad – they are all pulling for each other and they all want to do well.” 

The Bay’s fixture list doesn’t get any better as next up are surprise early leaders Beckenham Town and then a trip to face Danny Kedwell’s in form Ashford United with Sittingbourne after that.  

“They are all good games,” Lovell said, “They’re games you like to play in and put yourself up against good opposition and hopefully we will be in a position where we will have a squad back to pick from and we will see how it goes!”