Margate player-manager Ben Greenhalgh says what squad have done is one of hardest to do in football as 2-0 win over Isthmian South East leaders Three Bridges makes it three on spin

Ben Greenhalgh thinks what Margate have done in recent weeks is one of the toughest things to do in the game.

Eighth-placed Gate kept their slim hopes of a second successive Isthmian South East play-off finish alive with an impressive 2-0 home triumph over leaders Three Bridges last weekend.

It was a third straight win for Margate player-boss Greenhalgh and his side, and a second at Hartsdown Park in the league since November. A 2-0 home success over Sheppey United last month has sandwiched losses to Hastings United, Merstham, Ashford United, Eastbourne Town, Deal and Crowborough Athletic.

Gate appear to have turned a corner, however, and have done so with much of the same side.

Greenhalgh, whose troops are at second-bottom Beckenham tonight, said: “Having spoken to a lot of non-league managers and Football League managers, they say, when things aren’t going your way, the hardest thing to do is to turn it around with that current team.

“A lot of them maybe would sign five or six and let go of five or six. Sometimes, the hardest thing - with more or less the same group - is to turn things around and get positive results out of them.

“But we have gone from Broadbridge Heath away to Hastings away and top of the league, Three Bridges, at home and won those games.

“That’s the thing we’re most proud of, getting this group going back in the right direction. We know we’re probably not going to get into the play-off places.

“We have got some tough games to play, including four teams in the relegation scrap, and to go to AFC Whyteleafe. They’re absolutely flying and have won seven in a row.

“For us, it’s just a case of staying in the right frame of mind for every game.”

Midfielder Henry Young gave the hosts the lead in front of a