A year on from winning the FA Trophy, Ebbsfleet secretary Roly Edwards has spoken about the critical situation the club finds itself in.

The Fleet are due to slash this year’s playing budget by more than 50 per cent due to lack of funds and Mr Edwards believes the only people that can turn the situation around are the 9,500 MyFootballClub members.

Whether they have the desire to do so, is something that Mr Edwards (pictured right) feels is the biggest obstacle.

Mr Edwards, who has been with the club for over 12 years, said: "Our situation is pretty transparent and everyone knows how dire the playing budget is.

"There is one group who can change that but I don’t think there is any great desire to do anything.

"Some people have stumped up more money but we need to be talking about thousands of people.

"We want to strive to improve and there is no point being involved if you don’t want to win football matches.

"When we had the previous owners, they were local people and they had a great desire. There are a lot of good people at MyFootballClub but a fair percentage don’t really care if the club continues to exist, it means nothing to them. They just pay their £35 and they don’t have the same desire.

"To get us out of this situation is not that difficult but I don’t see any desire from them. It’s a slippery slope and how far are we going to go before we find our level?"

The club’s board met last Wednesday to discuss items such as the playing budget and manager Liam Daish, who himself is out of contract this summer, is likely to be left with funds similar to when Gravesend won the Ryman League in 2002.

Only three senior players, Darius Charles, Lance Cronin and Mihael Gash are still under contract.