Jay Saunders is prepared to make himself unpopular to keep Maidstone in the National League.

Vas Karagiannis, James Rogers and Harry Phipps didn't even make the squad for Stones' 4-2 win over Chester on Saturday as boss Saunders took some tough decisions.

Karagiannis has since moved on loan to Welling but Stones quickly added more competition by signing centre-half Magnus Okuonghae.

Saunders said: "I don’t think I’ve had anyone sat in the stands all season.

"Now all of a sudden we’ve got choices to make.

"I’ve got to make some tough choices and I’m not going to please everyone.

"I don’t like upsetting people but at the same time my priority is to try and keep us in the league and I’ll pick whatever side and whatever squad I think will do that for us.

"You can’t really argue with the team selection against Chester because we’ve gone out and got a good result.

"I know it’s frustrating for players but it’s a squad game.

"It’s one of them where we’ve just got to worry about picking up points and unfortunately along the way you are going to upset one or two."