After a couple of quiet weeks media wise the club announced six new signings and the re-signing of another six on Wednesday night. It’s funny just how worked up a small number of fans were getting about the lack of updates prior to this announcement, it wasn’t too long ago that you had to wait for the first friendly to find out who was still at the club and who was trying out.
Staying at the club are popular figures Joe Welch, Mike Jones, Danny Waldren, Warren McBean and Elliot Buchanan, joining are Alex Bentley from Hornchurch, Jay May & Rob Swaine from Billericay, Sabir Mullings from Southend and Ashley Nicholls from Dorchester. It’s not even mid-June yet and we have a full team signed up! The club is also in talks with last seasons top scorer Pierre Joseph-Dubois about staying for another season.
Despite hinting at a move away from the club in April Mark Goldberg appears to be staying as manager for another season and has urged the fans to work with him as they aim to stay within budget and compete against some very affluent opposition. Achieving league safety will be the first aim for The Ravens and hopefully avoiding another nervous April. A mid-table finish with a cup run and a county cup win would no nicely, two of which we achieved last season, but over spent in doing so. If MG gets the mix right this season with battlers rather than ballets we could at least match what was achieved in 2012/13.
