Sheppey United striker Dan Bradshaw now has over 150 goals for the club but promotion this season in Isthmian South East remains the main aim

Sheppey United’s Dan Bradshaw reached another milestone with a hat-trick last time out but team goals remain the priority for the striker.

Bradshaw made it past the 150-goal mark for the Ites in their New Year’s Day win over Hythe Town. In what could be his last season, he’s determined to help push the club towards an Isthmian South East play-off spot and the chance of promotion.

Bradshaw said: “It’s a big thing to get the 150 and for me it’s a nice little achievement. It’s going to be touch and go if I’m going to be playing again after this season, and I just want one more chance to go up.

“I got promoted at Chatham twice and it was the best feeling in football. I want to do that at Sheppey - I don’t care how many goals I get, as long as we have a chance of going up. That is the main thing for me.

“It’s all about getting into the play-offs. If we make it, anything can happen.

“I am not naive enough to think we can win the league because Ramsgate and Sittingbourne aren’t going to be caught. We are realistic and play-offs are a possibility and that’s all I want.

“As a group, we’re all in, all trying to achieve the same goal. We all want the same thing and we need to give everything we can do to get it. We haven’t got the biggest of squads but we are good in what we’ve got.

“We had some pretty rubbish results over Christmas and ideally we would have wanted to come out with six or seven points and we didn’t do that.

“The squad has been forced into rotation quite a lot through injuries, it’s quite hard to gel, different players coming in and forced into different formations, it takes time for players to lock into it.

“We have players starting to come back now, we are five points outside the play-offs and there is another