Folkestone haven’t given up hope of making the play-offs despite falling seven points off the pace with six games to play.

Defeat at home to Worthing on Saturday saw Neil Cugley’s side drop to 10th in Bostik Premier.

They’re now outsiders to finish in the top five but the manager insists they’ll keep fighting.

“It was a disappointing result,” Cugley admitted. “We lost to a good side but it won’t help.

“We’re not too bad, though. We know we haven’t got the biggest squad but I think we can manage.

“Matt Newman came on, we’ve got Johan ter Horst still to come back and Kieron McCann wasn’t selected on Saturday so he can come in.

“We’ve had worse this year with injuries and we’ve responded well. If we have a young bench, we have a young bench and just get on with it.

“We’ve got to win as many games as we can and hopefully we get enough points. If we don’t, we don’t and there’s nothing much you can do about that.

“The injuries we’ve had have made it quite a long season and that’s the disappointment.”

Folkestone will be without defenders Josh Vincent and Finn O’Mara this weekend after both players were sent off in the Worthing defeat.

“We’ll get by,” Cugley said. “We’ve had worse situations this year and picked up points so we won’t be using that as an excuse.

“It’s a disappointment because both are good players but we’ve had more people out than we’re going to have out on Saturday and won games so let’s just get on with it.”

Folkestone are away to lowly Potters Bar on Saturday with fellow strugglers Whitehawk visiting the Fullicks Stadium after that.

Cugley said: “We’ve got a strange run-in. We’re either playing the top sides or the bottom sides. They’ve all got something to play for, including us, so that’s good.

“Word is it’s not a very good pitch (at Potters Bar) so that’s going to be difficult on Saturday. It’s not the best of grounds and not the best of pitches so we’ll have to adapt to that as well.

“It’s something we’ll work on in training to make sure we go there and get a result.

“This pitch is meant to be very poor. You have to get the ball forward earlier and try to cause them problems in their half.

“Hopefully we turn up and it’s not as bad as we think but I think it will be. It’s the joys of non-league sometimes.”

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