Ebbsfleet manager Liam Daish hopes Saturday’s FA Trophy triumph can provide a springboard for further success at the club.

Daish has called on Fleet’s huge following for the final to back the club on a more regular basis and feels the victory could help some of his younger players develop a winning mentality for the future.

“There were 25,000 people here decked out in Ebbsfleet colours whereas our average gate this year has been around one thousand,” said Daish.

“Hopefully, there is going to be a kick-on, they are going to come back and want more, get involved and come and buy season tickets and boost our gates.

“It would be disappointing if, in the first game of next season, we are at home and they have all gone.

“I am not expecting 25,000, but it would be nice to get up around 2,000. If you look at the teams that were to get into the League - Stevenage, Cambridge, Burton, Exeter, Torquay and Aldershot - their gates helped them get there and that is what we need.”

It was a first taste of success for some of Daish’s young players and he is hoping they will want more of the same.

“Some young players didn’t know what it feels like to win something before today,” he said. “It gives you a winning feeling and they will want it again.

“Hopefully, it will be embedded in them that they are winners now and that brings a winning mentality.”

See this week's Gravesend Messenger and Dartford Messenger for 12-pages of coverage of the Fleet's historic win.