Sheppey United are on a roll - but player-boss Jack Midson is keeping a level head.

Midson’s men have won their last three games and moved within five points of the Isthmian South East play-off places after a 2-0 victory at Chichester City on Saturday.

Early goals from Warren Mfula and Jake Embery secured the win.

“It is going well but we’re never too high, never too low,” said Midson.

“We keep our feet on the ground. Things are better than they were. We were a new team, a new squad, new people coming together in certain areas of the pitch and the feeling is really good in the changing room, really good in training.

“We need to convert that into performances and points on the pitch and we’ve definitely been doing that in the last three games.”

Midson has had to make a number of changes to the squad this season. Embery is one signing who is making a difference with three goals in his last four appearances.

“He’s been asked to drop a bit deeper at times defensively,” Midson said. “We have found once he drops deep he is in a better position to receive the ball and to run forward with it.

“He has taken to that and fair play to him. He has not moaned, he has adapted to a slightly different position and he is getting his rewards.”

Mfula has remained from last season’s quadruple-winning side and his goal at Chichester was his 21st of the campaign.

Midson said: “He is always going to score goals, he is putting in the work ethic as well with his running in behind.”

Sheppey hope to make it four wins on the spin this Saturday at home to Hythe. They lost 1-0 to their Kent rivals in December.

Midson said: “Steve (Watt, the Hythe manager) and their staff will tell you their pitch is pretty horrendous. Quality-wise the game was one of the worst of the season.

“They have adjusted to their pitch, they do it very well with the long balls from back to front, picking up the second balls.”

Midson will be hoping home advantage counts for his men so they can continue their good form. He believes they are currently over-achieving after making the step up from the Southern Counties East league.

He said: “If we finish mid-table it would have been a good, first season in this league. We have to realise where the club is at, it has progressed very quickly.

“There are still a lot of teams above and below who financially have bigger budgets than us. If anything, we are over-achieving at the moment.

“When we lost a few games, people dug us out for a few bits, people do comment on things that they know very little about, it is fine, they can have opinions, but people put things out on social media, publicly, without knowing hardly any of the information on certain players we have at the club.

“We just trust in our judgement to get it right for us and the football club, without listening too much from certain people.”