'Play-offs always the target'

Yahoo

06-03-2025

A place in the League Two play-offs has always been the target for Bromley since the start of the season, says club captain Byron Webster.
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Bromley were promoted to the English Football League for the first time in their 133-year history last season, when Webster scored the winning penalty against Solihull Moors in the National League promotion final at Wembley.
The 37-year-old has been at the heart of Bromley a defence that has conceded no goals in the past six games and he said the side have always believed they could challenge for promotion.
"[The] target has been set to us of getting in the play-offs, that's what we want to do," Webster told BBC Radio London.
"We're not thinking about the history of Bromley's highest league position, it's about getting in the play-offs and seeing what we can do from there.
"From the start of the season it has been [the target]. We believe as a club, as players – there's a lot of teams that when they get promoted they ride the wave and they carry on into the next league. Winning is an infectious thing, if you win you keep winning."
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Bromley began the season with wins in their first ever EFL match - away to Harrogate Town - and in the first ever EFL game at Hayes Lane, against London rivals AFC Wimbledon.
The failed to win any of their next nine League Two matches to leave them two points above the relegation zone.
But 12 matches without defeat followed as they climbed into the top half of the table at the start of 2025.
A win at Tranmere Rovers on Saturday, with other results also going their way could move Bromley within one point of the play-offs with 10 games of the season remaining.
"We're punching above our weight, we're keeping clean sheets and we're probably riding our luck a bit. But that all makes for an exciting season," Webster said.
Key to Bromley's success has been the form of all-time top scorer Michael Cheek, who leads the way in the league scoring charts alongside Alassana Jatta of Notts County and Wimbledon's Matty Stevens, with 16 goals.
Webster, who spent five years playing for Millwall, said he was surprised Cheek had never had the opportunity to play higher up in the football pyramid.
"He really is an absolute machine in front of goal and I think if you have that knack as a striker, you never lose it no matter what standard or level you play at," he said.
"He finds the spaces, he's fantastic in the air, good with either foot and it's surprising that it's taken for Bromley to get in the league for him to get his chance there.
"Now he's proven he can do it at the Football League standard and he's doing it with a smile on his face."
Webster's career has spanned more than 20 years since its beginnings in York City.
The centre-back has represented the likes of Yeovil Town, Carlisle United and Millwall, and has a 100% winning record at Wembley with four victories in four finals.
He will turn 38 at the end of March, but has no intentions of retiring and would love to take the club to the third tier.
"Two years ago I never thought I still would be playing, I still am and enjoying it. A number of people keep doubting, keep trying to retire me possibly but I keep proving them wrong and keep playing so long may that continue," Webster added.
"I think at the end of your career you look at the history you've made. Now it's about winning football games, it doesn't matter what history we're making – we want to create more."