SALISBURY City may be sitting pretty on top of the Dr Martens Eastern Division but it does not exempt them from criticism from their manager.

Ex-Saint Nick Holmes was reasonably happy to score five goals against lowly Burnham on Saturday but not at all chuffed about conceding two in front of a 470-strong crowd.

"Yes we won 5-2, but I've set my standards a little bit higher than our performance today," he said.

"We've got to keep clean sheets to win the league and I don't think we're good enough to go all the way if we play like we did in the second half.

"When we play against the top sides, we'll be punished for giving them too much time and space."

Apart from rare threats by Burnham, a sixth-minute Stuart Brown strike and a second from Adam Wallace on 20 minutes made another three points seem almost routine for the Wiltshire club.

It became a virtual certainty when Roger Emms and Josh Thomas added headers in the 66th and 68th minutes to make it 4-0.

But Whites nodded off to sleep, allowing Burnham to pull two goals back through Abdouli Taha and Abu Ceesay, and it needed Tyronne Bowers to stir them back to life with a 90th-minute screamer.

Burnham's misery was complete when they had Stewart Brown red-carded in stoppage time.

Salisbury, meanwhile, have unveiled two new club directors - Stuart McGlashan of McGlashan Properties and Mervyn Griffiths of Griffiths Scaffolding.

They join Neville Beal and Dave Harrold, whose business consortium saved the Whites from Southern League extinction during the summer.

A club statement said: "We feel that both appointments will be of great benefit in view of the additional knowledge, support and, not least, the business acumen now at the club's disposal.

"The new Salisbury City FC Ltd has an opportunity to consolidate the success achieved so far on the financial and playing sides of the operation and it will be our continuing aim to ensure that progress is made in order to safeguard the club's future."

Fleet Town are nailed even more firmly to the foot of the Eastern Division after a 5-1 home whipping from form side King's Lynn.

Even without their leading scorer, Lee Stephenson, the Linnets had far too much ammunition for the struggling North Hampshire side who went 4-0 down to goals from David Staff, Carl Holmes and Chris Bacon (2).

Mike Pearson gave Fleet a faint ray of hope in the 87th minute, but Paul Watts had the last word.

The result leaves Fleet four points adrift of second-to-bottom St Leonards.

Tomorrow night they host Bashley in the third round of the Hampshire Senior Cup.