Folkestone Invicta manager Andy Drury is confident of pulling clear of the Isthmian Premier danger zone.

Drury’s men played out a goalless draw with the team directly above them in the table, Potters Bar, last night (Tuesday) and visit Cheshunt, a side battling against the drop, on Saturday.

Folkestone are 10 points clear of the relegation places after the midweek match and Drury is only looking up.

He said: “You have to be confident and I believe in the squad we’ve put together.

“We can beat the bottom teams and the top teams and we have had some good results, beating the likes of Billericay and Enfield.

“On another day, we should have got a win against Carshalton and last Saturday against Whitehawk.

“It’s not ideal when we don’t win the games but the performances have been really good. There have just been some moments in games that we’ve been punished for that we need to cut out.

“I wouldn’t want to rule us out of the relegation battle but I think that we will be fine.

“Every performance that we have had since the turn of the year has been good, having put a new squad together. We have lost three games since the turn of the year, two of them we should have got at least a draw and Hornchurch you could argue we could have got a draw had we not had a man sent off.

“We just had a few problems with people being out and we are nearly up to full strength now.

“I am expecting us to go on a run if we keep putting in these performances, defend our box better and get the odd goal more than we have done.”

There was a precautionary pitch inspection on Tuesday ahead of the Potters Bar game -the surface passing a morning check - after Folkestone’s weekend match against Concord Rangers had been postponed following heavy rain.

The original fixture against Potters Bar was also postponed and the club issued a statement on Monday saying: “As a football club we are very disappointed to have seen both matches postponed.

“Not only do we wish to cause as little disruption to the players, officials and supporters of both clubs involved, but with postponements affecting our income and cash flow, we always wish to get fixtures on.”

Fans were urged to check on social media before matches when there’s bad weather to avoid unnecessary travel.

Drury said: “It is frustrating but at the same time, as much as we want to play the games, there is literally nothing you can do about.

“The game was fine on Saturday morning but it just started raining constantly all afternoon and the pitch was waterlogged quite severely by the time the game would have started.”

Isthmian League Premier Division table