2016-17 National League South

[Joe.]

I believe I was one of those who said the above. ^^^

Last season was considerably stronger than the year before.

You was! I knew we wouldn't walk away with it.

 

[Aberstone]

HUNGERFORD TOWN:
In - Harry Grant (Maidenhead United), Nicholas Bignall (Gainsborough Trinity), Luke Williams (Hayes & Yeading United)
Out -

NB. Wish their website or Twitter would have announced these signings in a press release rather than me trawling!

MAIDENHEAD UNITED:
In - Sean Marks (Braintree Town), Charlie Wassmer (Margate), James Hammond (Concord Rangers), Jordan Cox (Billericay Town), James Comley (St. Albans City)
Out - Jake Reid (Chelmsford City), Ben Wright (Gosport Borough), Mark Nisbet (Slough Town)

MARGATE:
In - Daniel Akindayini (Brighton & Hove Albion), Yado Mambo (unattached), Danny Fitzsimmons (Dartford), Manny Parry (Maidstone United), Aaron Tumwa (Bromley), Scott Donnelly (Havant & Waterlooville), Alex Osborn (Ebbsfleet United), Matthias Fanimo (Eastleigh), Ali Fuseini (Bromley), Elliott Buchanan (Bishop's Stortford), Michael Thalassitis (St. Albans City)
Out - Charlie Wassmer (Maidenhead United), Danny Green (Wealdstone), David Hunt (Wealdstone), Nathan Green (Dulwich Hamlet), Chris Lewington (Welling United), Kane Wills (Worthing), Christian Jolley (Hampton & Richmond), Jake Goodman, Glenn Wilson

OXFORD CITY:
In - Freddie Grant (Oxford United), Liam Enver-Marum (Basingstoke Town), Shaun McAuley (Basingstoke Town), Louis Soares (Basingstoke Town), Scott Davies (Wealdstone), Godfrey Poku (Woking), Tom Winters (Brackley Town), Eddie Odihambo (Brackley Town), James Fawke (Cinderford Town)
Out - Bradley Bubb (Ebbsfleet United), Paul Stonehouse (Slough Town), Julen Lafuente (Club Portugalate), Declan Benjamin (Banbury United), Jose Lapoujade, Adrian Santiago, Carlos Pifarre, Ander Del Alamo

POOLE TOWN:
In - Lee Wort (Gosport Borough)
Out - Lewis Tallack

ST ALBANS CITY:
In - James Russell (Boreham Wood), Junior Morias (Boreham Wood), Josh Hill (Boreham Wood), Rhys Hoenes (Royston Town), Shaun Lucien (Wealdstone), Matt Ball (Wealdstone), Ian Rees (Biggleswade Town), Sam Merson (Redditch United)
Out - Joe Welch (Chelmsford City), James Kaloczi (Hemel Hempstead Town), Sam Corcoran (Hemel Hempstead Town), Eddie Oshodi (Wealdstone), Michael Thalassitis (Margate), James Comley (Maidenhead United)

TRURO CITY:
In - Niall Thompson (Hucknall Town), River Allen (Bodmin Town), Andrew Neal (Bodmin Town)
Out - Matt Wright (Taunton Town), Martin Rice (Gosport Borough), Aaron Dawson (Gosport Borough), Jake Ash, Craig Duff, Pierre Mitchell

WEALDSTONE:
In - Danny Green (Margate), David Hunt (Margate), Elliot Benyon (Hayes & Yeading), Eddie Oshodi (St. Albans City), Ricky Wellard (Hemel Hempstead Town), Sahr Kabba (Welling United)
Out - Jefferson Louis (Staines Town), Scott Davies (Oxford City), Bradley Hudson-Odoi (Sutton United), Shaun Lucien (St. Albans City), Matt Ball (St. Albans City), Dale Binns (Hendon)

WELLING UNITED:
In - Ollie Sprague (Hendon), Danny Waldren (Dulwich Hamlet), Jordan Brown (Hayes & Yeading), Rickie Hayles (East Thurrock United), Jamie Slabber (Hemel Hempstead Town), Chris Lewington (Margate), Jonte Smith (Lewes), Sean Francis (Bromley), Bobby Devyne (Enfield Town), Pierre Joseph-Dubois (Bromley), George Allen (Bishop's Stortford), Mitchell Nelson (Dulwich Hamlet)
Out - George Porter (Bromley), Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United), Barney Williams (Braintree Town), Xavier Vidal (Merstham), Michael Chambers (Dulwich Hamlet), Ibrahim Kargbo (Dulwich Hamlet), Sahr Kabba (Wealdstone). Countless others too...

WESTON-SUPER-MARE:
In - Ashley Kington (Bath City), Lewis Powell (Yate Town), Darren Mullings (unattached)
Out - Jamie Edge (Hereford), Scott Wilson (Eastleigh)

WHITEHAWK:
In - Marvin Hamilton (Eastbourne Borough), Ahmed Abdulla (Staines Town), Duncan Culley (Hampton & Richmond), Chris M'Boungou (Bishop's Stortford), Wilfried Tagbo (Pars FC), Albi Llenga (Kalamata FC), Javier Favarel (Deportivo Maldonado), Jose Mauricio Guzzi (KF Terbuni), Marcos Ribeiro (Chapecoense), Ramon Marimon (AEC Manlleu), Kleyton Agostini, Gabriel Yan, Rodrigo Mann
Out - Craig Ross (Macclesfield Town), Nick Arnold (Aldershot Town), Sam Rents (Worthing), Jordan Rose, Juan Cruz Gotta, Arnaud Mendy, David Ijaha, Chris Sessegnon, Lee Hills, David Martin, Jake Robinson

 

[Aberstone]

Anthony Acheampong to Maidstone, Michael West released, Bryan Van Den Bogart returned home for personal reasons. Pretty sure that's it in outs from us. If I think of anymore I'll let you know!

We've got a squad of 19 seniors and 4 academy players on first team contracts: Hugo Atkinson, Karn Miller-Neave, Ollie Boulding and Billy Holmes.

Ta Joe, all updated.

 

[Joe.]

The amount of signings by Whitehawk, Welling, Margate and Chelmsford is ridiculous. And seriously, where the heck did Whitehawk find these guys? Crazy.

 

[Rocky 11]

The amount of signings by Whitehawk, Welling, Margate and Chelmsford is ridiculous. And seriously, where the heck did Whitehawk find these guys? Crazy.

Looks like the story about brown manilla envelopes stuffed with £20 notes has been circulating around the planet at some pace !!!!

 

[JaredSUFC]

Typical non-league to have major squad overhauls in the summer though, isn't it? I totally forgot that Hungerford were at this level now, and the poor buggers have signed Nicholas Bignall possibly one of the worst strikers I've seen at SUFC.

I think Ebbsfleet are being sensible with their squad size this season. Too many places creates friction in the changing room. We used 22 players in the league last season

 

[Joe.]

Typical non-league to have major squad overhauls in the summer though, isn't it? I totally forgot that Hungerford were at this level now, and the poor buggers have signed Nicholas Bignall possibly one of the worst strikers I've seen at SUFC.

I think Ebbsfleet are being sensible with their squad size this season. Too many places creates friction in the changing room. We used 22 players in the league last season

That's the way I see it. We had far too many players on the books last season and we ended up rotating every other game. I think, as you say, we've been sensible this time round. Released the ones considered to be not good enough and just signed a handful. I do expect to see one or two more sign, but I wouldn't be disappointed if not.

 

[Joe.]

Here's a laugh for you all: Chris Sessegnon is on trial at Portsmouth. Absolute robbery how he's still playing football.

 

[Aberstone]

Everyone's favourite diver, Sahr Kabba has signed for the Stones this evening. 4-4-2!?

 

[Joe.]

Everyone's favourite diver, Sahr Kabba has signed for the Stones this evening. 4-4-2!?

If he recaptures the form from Havant, that's a great signing.

 

[Joe.]

Didn't go, but we beat Deal Town 5-0 today in their designated Demelza Cup day.

Kissock, Cook, Deering, Phillips and trialist Darren McQueen with the goals. McQueen came through Ipswich's academy and has been playing at Maldon and Tiptree for the past year. 17 in 39 from midfield isn't too bad.

 

[Aberstone]

I was at our 2-0 loss at Biggleswade earlier on this afternoon. Wellard looked very cultured on the ball (appreciate he won't have that much time on the ball when the season gets underway) whilst nobody else impressed. Thankfully pre-season means nothing.

 

[Joe.]

Yeah, I don't read anything into pre-season other than fitness levels really. Seems we played fairly well as a team today other than Deering refusing to let somebody else take the penalty!

McQueen looked really good when he came on by all accounts, imagine we will look to sign him, although not sure we need another midfielder unless he's the player behind the strikers we've been missing out on!

We play at Dartford tomorrow in Ryan Hayes' testimonial. McMahon said he will look to play a strong side in one half while Steve Gritt could feature! He's near on 60 I think! Paul Lorraine will play a half for us too even though he's contracted to Dartford.

 

[Joe.]

Got that wrong about Lorraine, he's player/assistant manager at Cray Wanderers. Played 45 minutes today as Dartford ran out 4-2 winners. Fairly strong side first half, although 3 or 4 of them probably won't be regular starters saw us go into the break 3-0 down. Bubb had a penalty saved at 1-0. Daryl McMahon, Stacy Long, Dean Pooley, Paul Lorraine and Shane Huke all played in the second half which saw trialist Darren McQueen score twice.

Apparently it was played at testimonial pace, so can't read anything into it, even fitness levels.

Thamesmead away on Tuesday. Only problem with playing all these sides is that it's not really an indicator as to what we will come up against in the season.

 

[Joe.]

After the RH testimonial group claiming only a limited number of tickets for yesterday would be available on the day, just 635 turned up.

 

[Aberstone]

Oxford City's Managing Director Colin Taylor sadly passed away yesterday.

RIP.

 

[Joe.]

Oxford City's Managing Director Colin Taylor sadly passed away yesterday.

RIP.

Heard about that. Wasn't he found dead at the ground?

 

[Aberstone]

Heard about that. Wasn't he found dead at the ground?

Aye, not being treated as suspicious. Very sad.

 

[Joe.]

Aye, not being treated as suspicious. Very sad.

Definitely. Didn't look that old either, not sure how old he was mind!

 

[ProfessorGreen]

Anybody have any good info on ex - Whitehawk player David Ijaha. He's signed for us after a trial. I know he's a giant and has played well in his 2 games, scoring an impressive goal against Truro last night.

 

[Joe.]

Anybody have any good info on ex - Whitehawk player David Ijaha. He's signed for us after a trial. I know he's a giant and has played well in his 2 games, scoring an impressive goal against Truro last night.

Didn't think he was much more than average, but could make the step up I guess!

We've signed midfielder Jack Powell (released by Millwall) after a successful trial. Apparently played well last night away at Thamesmead Town. Swindon were interested in him, but his other half didn't want to move there and he had a trial at Chelmsford but he didn't get on with Stringer!

Early 20s and nicknamed the Peckham Pirlo by all accounts. Five central midfielders for us now!

Hope we can secure Darren McQueen for the season. Will be a loan as he's contracted to Colchester.

 

[Aberstone]

Having known for a month or so (not told the name, but some clues gave it away), it's officially been announced that Peter Marsden is our new chairman.

He's been involved with Accrington Stanley for the last 10 years including the role of chairman for the past 4 years until taking up the role of club president earlier on this month (yes, he'll be involved with both clubs).

 

[Aber gas]

As an added bonus he looks remarkably like Peter Stringfellow.

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Didn't think he was much more than average, but could make the step up I guess!

We've signed midfielder Jack Powell (released by Millwall) after a successful trial. Apparently played well last night away at Thamesmead Town. Swindon were interested in him, but his other half didn't want to move there and he had a trial at Chelmsford but he didn't get on with Stringer!

Early 20s and nicknamed the Peckham Pirlo by all accounts. Five central midfielders for us now!

Hope we can secure Darren McQueen for the season. Will be a loan as he's contracted to Colchester.

Jack Powell is far too good for the Conference South, he'll piss all over it.

 

[Joe.]

Jack Powell is far too good for the Conference South, he'll piss all over it.

To be fair, so is Danny Kedwell, Stuart Lewis, Jordan Parkes etc! Didn't fare well last season!

Fairly confident this season though. Built what looks to be a very solid squad. This Darren McQueen could also be an inspired signing.

Just need to get off to a good start.

 

[Joe.]

3-0 away to Billericay. Didn't go, so can't comment. Think we have Folkestone next. Genuinely don't know how playing all these sides will give us an indicator for the season, but oh well!

 

[Aberstone]

Whereas Brackley smashed us 4-1, pre-season going well then ffs.

 

[Joe.]

Whereas Brackley smashed us 4-1, pre-season going well then ffs.

At least we have a friendly at Sutton to look forward to... and here's what you could have won!

 

[Aberstone]

Whitehawk away segregated. Not all that surprising.

 

[Joe.]

Wouldn't surprise me if they decide to segregate us either.

We've finally landed Darren McQueen on a season long loan from Colchester.