Welling United manager Ryan Maxwell discusses his plan to get the Wings moving in the right direction on and off the pitch

Ryan Maxwell is confident Welling’s issues are “very, very fixable” as he prepares to take charge of his first home league game.

The Wings are eight points from safety in the Isthmian Premier after losing 6-1 at Billericay on Saturday, with three of the goals coming in the closing stages.

Maxwell is a week into the role after moving to Park View Road from Sittingbourne and has joined a club who are down on their luck after a tough few years.

It’s up to him to get them going again, on and off the pitch, and it’s far from an impossible task.

Maxwell, whose side host promotion-chasing Chatham tonight, said: “When you walk into a club, you have a predetermined idea of what it is you’re walking into, and I wasn’t too far off, but I also know it’s very, very fixable.

“Internally, it needs harmony. It needs everyone brought back round the table, singing from the same hymn sheet and made a united club.

“It’s Welling United, it needs to be united, and that’s my job as much as everything else, to deal with the fractures that were there.

“We need to bring it all together and be a family-orientated football club, that’s the priority, because you’ll never get success if you’re all disjointed.

“I just need to be transparent with everybody, mistakes have been made, there’s no point pointing fingers, it’s all about now, the future, and bringing people together and getting behind this fantastic football club.

“It’s got so much potential and there’s no point talking about the past. It doesn’t get anyone anywhere, it never has, it never will.

“It’s about doing something positive now and that goes for myself, the board, the owner, players and fans alike.

“We are now at a place where I’ve spoken to the owner and the board and I’m allowed to