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Maidstone United manager Jay Saunders threatens axe after Guiseley draw

Frustrated Maidstone manager Jay Saunders threatened to make changes after their home draw against Guiseley.

United were held 1-1 by the National League’s bottom club on Saturday after failing to build on Alex Flisher’s early opener.

Saunders, whose side remain 13th, was unimpressed and is ready to act.

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Maidstone manager Jay Saunders Picture: Andy Jones
Maidstone manager Jay Saunders Picture: Andy Jones

He said: “I’m annoyed, to be honest, because a team like that, no disrespect to Guiseley, we’ve got to be beating them at home and that second-half performance wasn’t good enough. It’s as simple as that.

“If people aren’t going to do it, I’m not going to keep giving them chances. It’s not acceptable.

“There’s a few that need to come out and, like I just said to them in there, we’ll get people in that are going to do what we’re asking of them.

“If they’re not doing it they won’t stay in the team and they won’t stay at the club. It’s as simple as that.”

Maidstone had chances to finish the game before half-time, while Liam Enver-Marum was denied a penalty when taken down with only the keeper to beat.

Saunders said: “Liam could take the chance earlier but it’s a blatant penalty. The whole bench - theirs - has said it’s a penalty, the ref’s probably the only one in the ground that’s not seen it.

“It’s all right saying we created these chances but you’ve got to take them and our decision-making again in the final third after half-time was an embarrassment.

“I just said in there, you let teams back in it. Yes, you can be out of sight but it’s always going to happen.

“The minute it goes to 1-1 you get nervy and what disappointed me was we went to 1-1 and then we started going too direct.

“We stopped playing, just too many people went missing at that point and we’ve got to address it.”

Read the match report from Maidstone's 1-1 draw with Guiseley

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