Jay Saunders has criticised the National League’s bank holiday schedule.

Maidstone face two games in three days over the long weekend and boss Saunders feels it’s wrong.

They’re at Maidenhead on Saturday (12.35pm), live on BT Sport, and host Boreham Wood on Monday (3pm).

Saunders said: “I think it’s ridiculous, Saturday-Monday.

“It’s too much to ask for any player at any level, especially with ourselves, but you have to get on with it.

“It’s a tough ask, of course it is.

“In most sports, to do two games in three days is too big an ask and I don’t get the need for it because we do Saturday-Tuesday at the start of the season and then all of a sudden we go Saturday-Saturday for months.

“I just don’t get the point of it. It’s a tradition, I suppose, and it has to be done.”

Maidenhead are bottom of the league with only one point from five games.

They’re finding their second season at this level tough but Saunders feels they are better than results suggest.

He said: “It’s always a tough place to go.

“It’s a difficult pitch with the slope and everything.

“I don’t think they’ve had the best of starts but Alan Devonshire will have them well organised, so I expect it to be a hard place to go and get three points.

“They’ve signed some good players, a couple of players we spoke to.

“They’ll be a real tough cookie, as they always are, but we go there on the back of a win against Barrow and that’s pleasing.”

Alex Finney should be fit for the weekend after missing the past two games with a groin injury.