Here we go again then, after the longest, most drawn out and inconclusive pre-season I can remember, the Conference South season finally kicks off on 17 August. It’s been a strange month or so building up to the real thing, we’ve had quite a large number of prospective players come and go and even now it’s unclear what Mark Goldberg’s starting line up will be against Hayes & Yeading at Woking FC. We appear to have a good number of decent midfield options, Kiernan, Smith & Nicholls look great signings, while the back line although pretty solid has nothing in reserve past the four players who have started almost every friendly, Pooley, Swaine, Holland and Anderson. Up front MG has yet to unearth a real goal scorer. May & Mullings compete for the target man spot, while Bradley Godlberg and Warren McBean vie for the poachers role. The smart money is on May & Bradley to start the first game with last season’s top scorer Pierre Joseph Dubois not featuring in the last game against Cray Wands. With Joe Welch injured and George Howard singed by Gillingham we’ll start our league campaign without a settled keeper just as we did two years ago. Ben McNamara had been brought in on-loan from Nuneaton after Reserve Keeper Max Huxter had a game to forget against Dulwich Hamlet, fingers crossed Welch won’t be too far away from fitness after missing his second pre-season in a row through injury.
It looks like it will take some time for things to settle down and the team to take shape still, there has been a good buzz about the squad and hopefully the positive vibes will continue whatever the result next Saturday and beyond.
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