Folkestone Invicta joint-head coach Roland Edge urges players not to undo their hard work this season amid four-game Isthmian Premier losing run ahead of matches against Carshalton Athletic and at Margate

Joint-boss Roland Edge has urged Folkestone’s players not to undo all their hard work this season.

Invicta were beaten again last weekend, losing 3-1 at home to a Kingstonian side fighting to avoid relegation - a fourth successive Isthmian Premier loss.

Edge felt his troops let themselves down against Kingstonian but, despite their hopes of finishing in the play-offs having ended, he hopes the 11th-placed team can turn their form around in the final four fixtures of the campaign.

He said: “Football is a funny thing, isn’t it?

“You’re only as good as your last game - that’s the truest saying there is.

"I think we took over in a low position and then we tried to close in on the play-offs.

“Now, we don’t want to undo the hard work.

“On Friday, we will say, ‘Honestly, we have done really well and we have played sides this year and they have gone out of the ground so relieved they have beaten us’. They’ve got to take pride from that.

“Are they good lads? Yeah, they’re good lads.

"But they definitely let themselves down on Saturday.”

Ira Jackson’s penalty was of little consolation for Edge and fellow joint-head coach Micheal Everitt, who were without defender Josh Vincent (suspension), James Rogers (illness) and fellow midfielder Ronnie Dolan (injury).

“It was a really flat performance,” he reflected.

“But not by individuals necessarily. It was a whole team thing.

“The things that have worked well for us this season, we seemed to neglect. We didn’t work well as a unit.

“We went in at half-time 1-0 up. Facing into the wind, you think ‘We cannot afford to concede in the first 10 minutes of the second half’ but, unfortunately, we conceded three minutes into the half.

“In the middle of the season, we would have rolled our sleeves