Dover Athletic manager Mitch Brundle reacts to 0-0 National League South draw against Bath City

Mitch Brundle concedes he was as bored as he has been since becoming Dover boss during their goalless draw at home to Bath City on Saturday.

Whites probably looked the more likely to score, certainly in the second half, but nobody could find a way through at Crabble as they extended their unbeaten National League South streak to six games.

Brundle said: “I think we had the better of the chances. But it wasn’t a game for the neutral!

“I said to them [his players] at half-time that it’s the most bored I’ve been, stood on the sideline as a manager. That didn’t excite me one bit but it’s six unbeaten.

“It’s still positive, don’t get me wrong, and it shows where we have come to that we are disappointed to draw 0-0 with Bath and earn our fourth clean sheet in a row. It was just one of those days.

“I’ve just looked at the results and a lot of teams drew today. We weren’t at the races today. It’s the worst we’ve performed.

“I could be critical with aspects of certain bits but the keeper has tipped one onto the bar and we’ve had chances in the first half, and [Noah] Carney should score.

“But to be fair, it didn’t look like we were ever going to score. But they didn’t look like ever scoring, either.”

But Dover, who are at home to Cheshunt on Tuesday, have now kept four straight clean sheets while putting together their unbeaten run.

They last kept four clean sheets in a row in the 2018/19 season and have not had a run of six games without tasting defeat since an nine-match unbeaten run at the end of the same National League season.

“That’s where we’ve come [to] as a club,” noted Brundle. “That’s where we have changed now.

“I’d have snapped your hand off for that when I first got the job. But I will always try and be better and, to