Maidstone manager Jay Saunders will sit down with the club’s directors today to discuss plans for next season.

He’s due to meet co-owners Terry Casey and Oliver Ash and chief executive Bill Williams to thrash out the switch to full-time football.

They will also talk budgets and which players they would like to keep at the Gallagher Stadium for their second campaign in the National League.

Saunders said: “I’m expecting it to be a very long meeting because we’ve got a hell of a lot to go through with regards to training, the set-up for next year, budgets and things.

“At the end of the day it’s Terry and Oliver’s money. They hold the cards.

“We always sit down, they’ll ask my opinion, they’ll say their opinion.

“We’ll talk about players, people I want to keep, people we’ve maybe got to move on, things like that.

"They’re always normally enjoyable meetings. Nothing gets heated or anything. We all want to do what’s best for the club.

"It’s just a big meeting because of everything with the training.

"Normally it be a lot quicker. It would pretty much be here’s your budget, this is what I’m thinking and we go from there.”

Maidstone have improved in each of Saunders’ six seasons in charge, including three promotions in four years and now a mid-table finish in non-league’s top flight.

It’s a phenomenal record, so what’s next?

Saunders said: “It’ll be hard to improve on that but I did say a few weeks back that Boreham Wood are a club you’ve got to look at.

“They struggled, stayed up on the last day of the season last year and they’ve built on that.

"If we finish around mid-table, possibly even 10th, then we’ll look to build on that for next year - but it’s a hard league to do that.

“People think it’s quite easy just to keep improving but it isn’t. But I think I know where we can strengthen and where we can improve.”