19/07/14
We are finally in a position to be able to announce a 15 man squad for tomorrow's game at Maidenhead. Our injury problems this week have been well documented with 5 injuries sustained in our first 2 friendlies and we are in the difficult position of being without 10 players for this game, including all 4 of our strikers and the 2 wide players who can also play up front in Warren Harris and Sam Barratt.
We are therefore massively grateful first of all to Gordon Bartlett at Wealdstone who has agreed to lend us two very good players from his squad in Stefan Bailey, a midfielder who has played first team football at QPR, and a young striker in Jack Smith who Gordon rates highly. Both of these lads will start today.
Two other new faces in the squad are attacking midfielder Alex Witham and a French forward who has been recommended to us who has previously been in the Nice under 19 side. Alex is someone we did actually speak to last season and very nearly signed at one point. He played for Biggleswade in the Southern Premier last season and has been training with Conference side Welling United this pre-season. Both of these lads will play the 2nd half tomorrow and we also have our youth team forward Chris Smith on the bench who trained with us last night and also Gareth Risbridger who has yet to train with us in pre-season due to work commitments.
Squad - Jake Somerville, Sean Fraser, Ryan Parsons, Guy Hollis, Reece Yorke, Gary MacDonald, Ben Edwards, Luke Knight, Stefan Bailey, James Dobson, Jack Smith, Alex Witham, Triallist, Gareth Risbridger, Chris Smith.
Obviously a tough test tomorrow but one that we are very much looking forward to and hopefully we'll see many of you over there.
We are therefore massively grateful first of all to Gordon Bartlett at Wealdstone who has agreed to lend us two very good players from his squad in Stefan Bailey, a midfielder who has played first team football at QPR, and a young striker in Jack Smith who Gordon rates highly. Both of these lads will start today.
Two other new faces in the squad are attacking midfielder Alex Witham and a French forward who has been recommended to us who has previously been in the Nice under 19 side. Alex is someone we did actually speak to last season and very nearly signed at one point. He played for Biggleswade in the Southern Premier last season and has been training with Conference side Welling United this pre-season. Both of these lads will play the 2nd half tomorrow and we also have our youth team forward Chris Smith on the bench who trained with us last night and also Gareth Risbridger who has yet to train with us in pre-season due to work commitments.
Squad - Jake Somerville, Sean Fraser, Ryan Parsons, Guy Hollis, Reece Yorke, Gary MacDonald, Ben Edwards, Luke Knight, Stefan Bailey, James Dobson, Jack Smith, Alex Witham, Triallist, Gareth Risbridger, Chris Smith.
Obviously a tough test tomorrow but one that we are very much looking forward to and hopefully we'll see many of you over there.
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