As the pre-season gets underway there has been some interest in how the team for the new season is coming together, which I will try to summarise below.

With the knowledge that we were probably going to lose Tyrone Barnett and Ross Dyer to the full time game, the most pressing priority was to get some good quality strikers signed up. As there was also a question mark over whether Stuart Brock would be available for the whole of the 2010/2011 campaign, Bernard McNally moved quickly to secure the services of highly rated goalkeeper, Danny Crane, from Solihull Moors.

The striker situation was quickly solved with the signing of former Hednesford Town youth team star striker, Craig Marshall, from Sutton Coldfield Town and then fending off the interest of other clubs in one of the leagues most sought after finishers, Mark Bellingham from Leamington FC,

Bernard McNally has also re-signed Dorryl Proffitt, Josh Craddock, Aaron Gibson and Sean Platt. Ben Bailey will be signed up on his return from holiday and Stuart Brock has signed up as Player/Coach and will take his first steps into the team management side of things as Bernie's assistant.

The next recruit was midfielder David Bridgwater from Redditch United and the midfield options were added to this week with the capture of Alfie Carter from Worcester City, the impressive Jay Denny from Halesowen Town and Chris Clements the talented young midfielder that had such a good loan spell with us at the end of last season.

Bernie NcNally has also been looking at a number of 18/19 year olds leaving the Football League Academies and has signed left back Louis Keenan from Walsall FC.

We are still looking at a number of triallists and our top priority will now be to secure the services of a good quality centre back to add to this very good squad of players.

We are still trying to clarify the position of one or two of last seasons players, however, with fourteen players now registered for the new campaign the team is looking in pretty good shape.

Terry McMahon

Club Secretary