Jay Saunders is happy to keep ticking along as Tonbridge close in on the National League South play-off places.

Angels made it back-to-back wins with a 1-0 success at home to Chesham on Tuesday night.

With a game in hand, Saunders’ 10th-placed side are only six points behind leaders Torquay and two points off the play-offs.

They face another test this Saturday away to a Boreham Wood outfit who are second in the table.

Tonbridge, who’ve made their best-ever start to a season at this level, are enjoying the ride as they bid to overhaul bigger-spending rivals and finish in the top seven.

“I didn’t really look at the table on Tuesday but everyone’s said if you win your game in hand, you’re in the play-offs,” said boss Saunders.

“I think we’d have taken that at the start of the season.

“We’ve lost once at home and we’ve got the best points tally the club’s had at this stage since it’s been in the Conference South.

“These are all successes so we just have to keep ticking along.

“You can easily look at the Enfield game last week and say if only we’d won that we’d be in the play-offs.

“But when you look at the table, the teams we’re above and the ones we’re in and around, we’re probably punching above our weight to a degree.

“But it’s good and it’s no fluke we are where we are.

“You’re there on merit at this time of the year so we’ve just got to keep going and see where it takes us.”

Saunders felt Boreham Wood were favourites for the title after Luke Garrard returned as manager.

They’re going well, a point behind Torquay, while Boxing Day opponents Maidstone go into the weekend unbeaten in 14 games, a run stretching back well over three months.

Saunders said: “My gut feeling is we’ll come up against one of the favourites on Saturday and we’ve got Maidstone coming up, another of the big-hitters or fancied sides.

“They’ll be interesting games but I don’t think our season is judged against them.

“When Luke Garrard went back to Boreham Wood I thought they’d get stronger.

“Every game I’ve watched, I’ve been really impressed.

“They’re full of National League players.

“If anyone finishes above them, you’re looking at the champions because I think they’ll get stronger and stronger.

“That’s the same for Dorking, Maidstone, all the ones that were fancied at the start will be the ones battling it out for that first place.

“No one speaks about us for the play-offs, no one mentions us and I quite like that. We can just go about our business.

“I said to Tom Parkinson (assistant manager) and Lloyd Blackman (coach) on Tuesday, let’s get to 46 points as quick as we can.

“We’re on 34, which is decent, so four more wins will get us there, then you can look at the table and assess from there.

“We want to push as a management team and a group of players but we know as a club it’s hard to push some of these big sides.”

Angels keeper Matt Rowley saved a Chesham penalty at 0-0 before Trevan Robinson scored the winner.

It wasn’t always pretty but the hosts prevailed.

“We got the win which is the main thing,” said Saunders, whose side beat Aveley 2-1 on Saturday.

“Chesham are one of the best sides that have come to Longmead this season. I thought they were decent.

“Matt made an important penalty save in the first half, a great save, then we got the goal and had the opportunity to kill it off but didn’t.

“Then, second half, against the wind, we struggled to get out, but we defended well.

“They penned us in but we dug deep and that’s our 10th clean sheet of the season which, with the young lads we’ve got, is a real good achievement.

“It probably wasn’t the greatest of games to watch in the second half but you’ve got to give Chesham some credit.

“They threw everything at us, they ended up with five forwards on the pitch and it was hard to get out.

“Can we be better? Yes, I’ve said that the last two games but to bounce back after the Enfield game with two wins, when it could have knocked our confidence, you’ve got to give the boys credit.”