Kings Langley joint-boss Ritchie Hanlon hopes his side’s four-game winning run in Southern League Division One Central will make other teams sit up and take notice of them.

The Gaywood Park side occupy the final play-off place after a 4-2 victory against Ware on Saturday and are just four points off leaders St Ives Town, who they visit tomorrow.

Inconsistency had plagued Kings in the early weeks of the season but Mitchell Weiss’ hat-trick was enough to see Hanlon and Paul Hughes’ men take all three points, that despite falling behind after 30 seconds.

Clashes against Beaconsfield SYCOB, Aylesbury and Egham Town – all in or around the play-off places – follow tomorrow’s meeting with St Ives.

But Hanlon believes Kings won’t be taken lightly any longer.

“Some of those teams will be wary of playing us,” he said. “We’re scoring a lot of goals but now we’re not conceding too many either.

“Hopefully the rest of the league is sitting up and taking notice of us and teams will give us the respect we deserve. It’s been ‘little old Kings Langley – they’re only a village club and they don’t get many to watch’ up until now.

“We’ve got a lot to look forward to but we’re fully aware these are good teams we’re facing.”

Hanlon added: “If we keep playing as we are we’re a play-off team.

"If we drop below our standards then we’re not The challenge is to keep up those standards.”

Kings have two games in hand on most of the sides around them but with just 10 points separating leaders St Ives and Uxbridge in 11th, nothing is close to being decided at this stage of the campaign.

“There’s a lot of teams who will have a say in the play-off places so anything could happen,” admitted Hanlon. “We’ve only played 15 games so there’s a long way to go.”

And Hanlon believes the secret of Kings’ success this season is the team spirit in the dressing room.

That despite a handful of recent exits, including Danny May and Alex Campana.

“The boys are in a little bit of a zone at the minute where the team spirit is fantastic,” he said.

“They are all together, mixing and going out together.

“We haven’t played brilliantly in a couple of games, well but not brilliantly, but team spirit has got us through.

“On Saturday the team spirit and will to win was there.

“When we went 3-2 up everyone on the pitch celebrated together and everyone on the bench leapt up and hugged.

“That’s what I think has served us so well in the last few years.

“We’re just enjoying every game that passes.

"We never thought that we would be in this position. Not even in our wildest dreams,” the joint manager added.