Jamie Day will not hesitate to ring the changes if his Ebbsfleet players fail to raise their game in the next few weeks.

Fleet slumped to a 1-0 home defeat against struggling Weston-super-Mare in Day’s first game in charge on Saturday.

They faded badly after a good start and with four matches against promotion rivals coming up in the next 10 days, their manager knows time isn’t on his side.

Day said: "I want to give everyone a chance but they need to take on board how I want to play – and we need to do it quickly. We haven’t got time to be taking two or three months to get it right.

"The boys that do take it on board quickly are the ones that will play and the ones that don’t, we’ll have to move on or they’ll be on the sidelines. We’ll get boys in that can do that.

"It’s a good set of boys but we need to get into how I want to play quickly. If we don’t, we’ll need to change personnel."

Ebbsfleet are away to Chelmsford on Boxing Day with the return fixture at Stonebridge Road taking place on New Year’s Day. Fleet start the Christmas period fifth in Vanarama Conference South, two points ahead of Chelmsford and one further clear of Basingstoke, who visit the PHB Stadium on Sunday.

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