Ebbsfleet manager Josh Wright responds to claims the National League South leaders have benefited from a delayed start to the season after a gruelling run of games

Ebbsfleet manager Josh Wright is taking the outside noise around their surge up the table as good news.

The Fleet regained top spot in National League South after thrashing Farnborough 6-0 on Tuesday night. The result came on the back of a 3-0 defeat at Truro last weekend.

That was a first defeat of the season for Ebbsfleet, whose relentless schedule has seen them play every midweek since late September following a delayed start to the season.

That’s led to accusations in some quarters that the Fleet have somehow benefited. Wright’s aware of the comments but he’s keen that it doesn’t take the gloss off what has been a superb start to the campaign.

“Comments are getting banded around and I get told a lot,” said Wright. “I don’t read [that stuff], I don’t go on it. I read good stuff, I mean proper articles, KentOnline and accurate stuff, stuff that’s sensible.

“I just mean if we’d have struggled at the start of this season, I’m sure no one would be saying it was a positive that’s happened. It’s just the way life is.

“People seem to feel sometimes that we’re this privileged football club and that everything’s rosy and hunky-dory. But it’s not, you know, we’ve had to battle.

“As a manager, my staff and my players can only control what we can control. We are where we are now as a football club. Forget whatever’s gone on, I don’t really know and care.

“But I just get that feeling, there was a little bit of noise after the game on Saturday. I feel people want to raise their game and find something but that’s fine because I enjoy that and this group enjoy that.

“It’s nothing that bothers me too much. It’s fine because that’s part and parcel of people doing well. It tells you you’re doing something well if people are talking