Ebbsfleet United manager Josh Wright talks about changing the mentality and momentum at the club, and why targeting 73 points was realistic for a play-off place

Ebbsfleet boss Josh Wright insists he will take the positives from his first full season in charge.

The Fleet missed out on their aim of reaching the National League South play-offs this season.

But after two seasons of struggle at the wrong end of the division above, Wright was pleased that he had lifted the gloom over the club.

“You have to look at the bigger picture,” he insisted. “I’ve repeated myself and I know I’ve said this quite a lot.

“But let’s not come away from how this club was, where we battled really tough moments for a couple of seasons.

“I know we stayed up on the last day of that season at Boreham Wood but that was horrible as well. It was tough.

“It was a great feeling that last day. But the amount of games we lost that season and the games we were up against it, that season wasn’t enjoyable.

“It wasn’t enjoyable as a player at the time and it wasn’t enjoyable, I’m sure, as a fan, albeit we got away with it come the end of the season.

“The season after was an absolute disaster. We know that. In life and in football, it’s habit and a mentality and a mindset.

“We got into a really bad rut at this football club of losing football games, churning over players, the wrong type of characters and footballers and people that you want around the place.

“It needed a massive rebuild and that’s exactly what we did. That’s me and my staff. That’s the football club.

“We created and changed everything that we could. We achieved a lot of it. We got in good people. We got in good staff. We got in good players. We brought smiles back to faces.

“We won a lot of football games last year in the league, in cups, and we accumulated a large amount of points.”

The Fleet boss felt that 73 or 74 points would have been enough to