Ebbsfleet United boss Danny Searle says strikers Dominic Poleon, Rakish Bingham and Dominic Samuel are good enough to start for majority of National League sides

Ebbsfleet manager Danny Searle says the quality of his forward line is testament to the club’s recruitment in the transfer market.

Searle is thrilled to have the attacking trio of Dominic Poleon, Rakish Bingham and Dominic Samuel at his disposal.

Poleon is the club’s leading scorer while Bingham now has seven goals in eight games under Searle and Samuel opened the scoring in last weekend’s home win over Gateshead.

The Fleet boss believes all three players would get into most National League sides.

“We’re blessed with all three of our centre-forwards,” said Searle. “There’s not many teams in this league that they wouldn’t be in and around so that’s a credit to them and a credit to the recruitment at the club.

“We need to make sure that we keep them fit, keep them healthy - hence the Dom Poleon situation. There’s no point using him today and then we miss him for seven games, it’s about looking after him.

“Raks is great for the level. I’ve been fortunate that since he’s been in the building he’s scored seven goals in eight games and long may that continue.”

Poleon was left out of the starting line-up against Gateshead with Samuel given the nod to lead the line.

It was a big call by Searle but a sensible one given Poleon’s workload and with a busy run of games ahead.

“I think Dom needed a rest and Dom Samuel has been banging on the door,” explained Searle.

“It was an opportunity to do that, especially with the way we wanted to set up from certain pressing positions it suited Dom Samuel a little bit more rather than Dom Poleon.

“He’s played a lot of minutes for us and has run himself into the ground. It’s about protecting him as we’ve still got games to play. If that’s the last game of the season, we might have made different