Transfers and Pre-Season
Change in the backroom staff aswell, I have appointed a new fitness coach after being allowed an additional coach. With Jon Ashton retiring, I have brought in a new assistant manager in the shape of...
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Emerson Boyce - Good man management with decent motivating and tactical knowledge. His ability to judge players is also decent and a lot better than Ashton's! With Premier League experience and after winning the FA Cup with Wigan I hope he can show our players a thing or two.
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A list of our released players. Kelvin Langmead also left to join Slough Town however it was at the end of last season so you cannot see it here. As you can see a lot of deadwood, most players rarely featured. I did offer Dielna a contract but he wanted £1,500 a week which I refused to agree to. I debated giving Michael Tweed a contract however I felt I could find better players without a contract.
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9 transfers made and one leaving in the shape of Billy Daniels who joins newly relegated North Ferriby on a free.
Now for the ins...
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Steve Tomassen - An English centre half signed for £1,000 from Airbus UK in Wales. He is an all round player with decent technical, physical and mental stats.
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Ben Hedley - Signed for £8,000 from Morecambe, Ben Hedley will play centre midfield. Decent physical stats which will hopefully improve with age. Even at his age he is already a leader and has good passing with high determination. I was surprised to see the transfer of Hedley breaking an existing highest fee paid record, I hope it doesn't affect his performances at all.
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Reece Prestedge - signed following his loan spell here last season. Fantastic mental stats and already an influential player in the dressing room, again determination of 15, leadership 14 and with natural fitness at 15 he will hopefully maintain his stats at the age of 32.
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Warren Burrell - An all round player, with good physical stats he can get across the pitch in a box to box role which he enjoys. Fairly determined all his stats are about average for this league expect first touch which we will look to improve!
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Wade Joyce - Another midfield player with good fitness stats and determined. We will be playing 3 centre midfielders this year so this is why I now have 5 good options for our high tempo game.
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Ryan Hutchinson - Another central defender, Ryan has good stats with tackling, header, marking, positioning and determination all being in double figures. All the other important defensive stats are also around the 9 mark so I am really pleased to acquire him on a free transfer.
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Matt Fish - A right wing back signing from Salford where he was playing on non contract terms. Poor physically but a step ahead mentally with good tackling, passing, marking and crossing stats.
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Will Dennis - He's signed as understudy to Dean Lyness. He has very good technical stats for the age of 18 in this league so maybe he is one we look to develop and use him as a long term replacement.
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Tobi Sho-Silva - Signed on a season long loan from Dover, he will give healthy competition to Chambers and Lofts. He again is highly determined and is very quick, fit and agile, so will be a handful coming off the bench.
Pre-Season
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A good pre-season with 3 wins, 2 draws and one defeat. Luke Lofts is back in the goalscoring form. We played against football league competition and more than held our own narrowing losing 3-2 to Lincoln, drawing to Crawley and Gillingham and beating Coventry at home.
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This is our squad for the season so far, as you can see some real quality in there mixed with a few up and coming youngsters. Our board feel we should be top half of the table however I feel we can push for a play off spot.
Next Update:
August Round Up