Experienced Whitstable Town goalkeeper Dan Eason on coaching at the club and working with manager Marcel Nimani as he looks ahead to their trip to Tunbridge Wells

Player and goalkeeping coach Dan Eason is embracing the style Whitstable boss Marcel Nimani has introduced - as he begins plotting his own managerial career.

Eason was added to Nimani’s backroom team earlier this season despite remaining in the Oystermen’s No.1 spot. Since being named manager last term, Nimani has encouraged an attractive style of play.

The experienced keeper said: “Marcel is sort of the new modern-type of manager, playing a lot of football.

“The other managers I’ve been with, they’ve been more ‘Let’s get it in their half’ so it’s been good to have those types of managers and then there’s someone like Marcel. Football is tiki-taka football now.

“You don’t get many youngsters coming through as centre-halves who really want to head the ball or elbow people, so you have to adapt a bit.”

Eason has already earned plaudits from Nimani for his coaching work and said: “I do enjoy it.

“I’ve got a couple of youngsters down here so it’s good. We train Tuesdays and Thursdays. They do quite a bit of training.

“I do the goalkeepers now, so I’ll train on Tuesday and have a bit of a rest and just do the goalkeepers on Thursday.”

But it’s a role in the managerial hot-seat which Eason one day envisages having.

He said: “That’s what I want to do - I think!

“Although with what players want, there’s just too much money in it now. But I want to get into it.

“I’ll need to get the coaching side of it sorted and push on from there.”

Whitstable bowed out of the FA Vase, falling victim of a turnaround in their 2-1 weekend home loss to Southern Combination Premier Division Lingfield in front of a 288-strong crowd.

Midfielder Jack Palmby broke the deadlock in the eighth minute from a corner and it remained 1-0 until three minutes