I don’t think I remember us ever starting pre-season games before the end of the World Cup in previous years, but that’s exactly what we are doing on Saturday when Dagenham & Redbridge (including our top scorer from last season Bradley Goldberg) come to Hayes Lane before the Quarter Finals have even been decided. With the Conference South season starting on 9th August it’s only just over a month before it all gets going again for real and Mark Goldberg has several new faces to look at along with the core of last seasons side.
Dagenham & Redbridge are a club who played on a level playing field with ourselves not so long ago, but have now established themselves as a football league side after a steady rise through the Conference, there is no reason why we couldn’t emulate that given the current backing.
There have been some impressive arrivals at Bromley FC over the summer with good track records at this level and the club’s intention is to kick on form last seasons play of place to contend for promotion again. With 18 players already on contract MG has put the marker down that these are the players he believes can do the job this season and in many ways he has put himself under immense pressure, because of squad of this quality should achieve promotion. Last term we over achieved and fell away late on after a spate of injuries which exposed just how small the squad was, the tough job this time round will be to keep so many good players happy if they don’t get regular starts.
Good problems to have at an exciting time for the club, with the 11a side 4G training pitch on it’s way to completion at the end of September and other schemes in place to raise the club’s profile.
With the club reducing prices for pre-season games to £10 hopefully we’ll get plenty of punters down to see the new look squad take on four football league sides and they’ll like what they see enough to come back when it kicks off for real.
Colin Head
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