New Faversham manager Simon Austin has a philosophy he wants to implement but he’s prepared to be patient about as and when he does so.

It has been a whirlwind week for former Maidstone under-23s boss Austin, who joined the club on Tuesday, a day after the departures of John Embery and Jermaine Darlington.

There were positives for Austin and his backroom team to take from their first match in charge as the Lilywhites beat Isthmian South East leaders Ramsgate 2-1 in the Velocity Trophy on Wednesday through a goal in either half from under-23s player Egid Aydin and a Nathan Wood free-kick.

“Look, I have got a style of play that I’d like to play but I’m not going to impose that on a squad of players if we haven’t got the right players to suit that shape,” said Austin.

“Part of Wednesday was looking, assessing and trialling a few things with the players that we have got and how we, as a management team, can set them up to go and win.

“Is that what I want to play long term? Probably not.

“But now, it’s about getting out of where we are, getting the best out of the players that we have got - whatever formation we think that’ll happen in - and slowly over time, start transitioning into the way we want to play.”

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Austin, a former Folkestone player-assistant who has had managerial roles with Canterbury City, Erith Town and Snodland, has certainly been busy since getting the top job at Salters Lane.

He said: “It’s been a crazy 48 hours. I don’t think I have been on the phone as much in the last 10 years as I have been in the last 48 hours!

“But look, it’s massively positive. We’re thrilled to be on board.

“I have got a great team supporting me - it’s about all of us because we all bring massive pluses to the work we do. We had to patch the team up a little bit, we’ve got 10 people out that would all be challenging to start.

“Mark Taylor [Town’s under-23s manager] has supported us with some under-23s and, of those that came on, they did ever so well and one started and scored. We’re going to embrace that.

“It’s going to be a challenging couple of months. It’ll be up and down a little bit in terms of players but we have got to settle down as quickly as possible. But we couldn’t have asked for a better start.

“We spoke about a few things and I wanted to see a bit of a reaction, people taking things on board, and the lads absolutely did that.

“I think we were well worthy of the win.”

The Lilywhites weathered first-half pressure from the hosts at Southwood - centre-backs Matt Bourne and Danny Rumbol organising the defence well and goalkeeper Leighton Fanshawe making some fine saves - before they took control.

Despite a poor start to the season, it was already a fourth goal of the campaign for midfielder Wood while midfielder Perri Iandolo - whose older brother Ellis is at Swindon - has joined on a one-month loan from National League Maidstone as he re-unites with Austin.

“Second half, I pulled Brad [Schafer], Nathan and Perri aside and I thought they started to look really dangerous,” said Austin, himself a striker in his playing days.

“I think some of the link-up play was special and I’m really looking forward to working with those three as a forward line. There’s others who are injured as well that are going to come into that and it’s going to start to be really competitive up there.

“From everyone, including the substitutes that came on, I thought it was a great performance. It was a shift, it was hard work and people are knackered in there. But we have got to expect that.

“We’ll need to grind results out at times, which I think we did, and I think we grew in the second half so I’m really pleased.”

Town were still without the likes of Jono Richardson (work commitments) and Dan Carrington (injury), though, and Austin is keen to strengthen the squad.

He said: “That’s been a lot of our work - to see what we can bring in to strengthen, not because I don’t trust what we’ve got here, but because we are depleted on numbers.

“We need a stronger squad with the amount of players we’ve got out at the minute.

“So I expect a few more to come in but everyone did well on Wednesday night so I can’t argue with that.”

Second-bottom Faversham now are preparing for this Saturday’s Isthmian South East trip to Burgess Hill, which will be Austin’s first league game in charge.

Asked what he knows about the Hillians, who themselves sit fourth-bottom despite a 1-0 victory at Corinthian last weekend, Austin replied: “Not a lot to be totally honest.

"I think, once we get settled in, we’ll be able to assess teams in our league and utilise some of the staff that we have got. But right now, I’m concerned about us - what we do.

“If we put in performances like that, then things will turn around. That’s all we can control at the minute, us and making sure we get ourselves right for every game.”

Austin will have to wait a while for his first home game in charge, though.

On the encounter against East Grinstead on November 5, he said: “It’s a few weeks away, isn’t it? That’s a bit of a shame but, hopefully, people come along and support us on Saturday.

“I met a few fans on Wednesday, which was great. Hopefully they can see a change in hunger and desire from Faversham and they’ll see that every week.

“I want to put a team and squad out there that people want to come and support.”

But equally, three successive league away fixtures will allow Faversham to build momentum before they return to home action if results go their way, with a game against Sevenoaks at Salters Lane following three days later.

Austin said: “It’ll be great to be at home, we want to make that a difficult place for people to come, and we want supporters to get behind us. But the next few games are away.

“We can’t control that but we can control what we do - whether it’s at home or away - and we’ll have the same attitude for every game.”

The Lilywhites will visit Isthmian Premier Folkestone in the Third Round of the Velocity Trophy.