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-- Edited by morph on Monday 3rd of June 2024 10:09:47 AM

He was one thorn in any opponents side at Chelmsford. Hated the bloke.
He was a bit of a horrible b@stard
Now hes our horrible b@stard.
Happy days.
Nice work Welling

-- Edited by Wallop on Thursday 6th of June 2024 05:32:29 PM

14th June...we already have 12 players. It's been a very long time since I've known this. Excellent. I think almost this time last year we appointed Danny Bloor so good to compare situations. Hope Rod catches the additional 4.

I note that Gene Kennedy and Adam Roscrow are free agents now. I really liked them both. Gene was very controlled and I thought Adam was good from the bench when we needed to keep hold of a narrow lead.

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I note that Gene Kennedy and Adam Roscrow are free agents now. I really liked them both. Gene was very controlled and I thought Adam was good from the bench when we needed to keep hold of a narrow lead.

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 Gene Kennedy maybe but Adam Roscrow didnt impress me in anything he did for us last season. Good luck to both in whatever they choose to do. 

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Martell Taylor-Crossdale - IN

What's encouraging about Rods signings is the number of them around the mid 20's mark. Experienced but still young.

Papadopolis. Gone. Sadly. Gutted

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Papadopolis. Gone. Sadly. Gutted

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 Signed for Crawley Town

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 Good luck to him. As he's under 23 we will be due a fee won't we?

His contract had expired. Good player for us. I can't imagine him breaking into first team but I hope he proves me wrong.

Next player in Elliot Long  Midfielder 23 years old. Ex Wingate and Finchley

Excuse the pun but Rod has netted some great new signings for next season.

I've switched off from Welling for the summer to concentrate on England and the Euros, but Southgate is so clueless to save my sanity I've run back to Welling where one is guaranteed enjoyable quality football!

With Danny we were bottom 4 for all but 3 of his 28 games in charge of us. That was significantly due to his remarkably inept pre-season approach. He was heavily testing triallists for hs pre-season games, so would play our strongest team in the first half of pre-season games, then make tons of changes for the second half that weakened the team.

The problem he clearly didnt see is that he wasnt giving our team a full 90 minutes together, so we started the season unprepared and not match fit, as players hadnt played a full 90 minutes individually or as a team together, and as a result of the poor fitness and lack of playing time together lost our first 4 league games, and so unsuccessfully trying to play catch up for the rest of his time with us.

Great to see this wont happen with Rod, he's made lots of early signings so plenty of time working with the new squad. I heard the other day Ebbsfleet had only 3 players signed up, so our high signing activity is all the more impressive. Lots of the new signings are making a step up the league on joining us, and not all will work out, but I am sure most will.

Ditto

Certain people seem to be using this thread to comment on a poster with world famous superior football knowledge rather than give information about player news.

At the moment the squad is an equal balance between new signings and re-signings, and that is great, as the secret of successful teams is continuity and in the past Welling's annual change of manager and total squad rebuild held us back so much.

With Gary Fiore out of the picture I guess Rod has the major say in our signings, if so that is good news as before his arrival it was always a messy puzzle who signed our players, as before Rod we signed players the manager didnt play, so presumably didnt rate, so presumably he hadn't signed. Now with Rod doing signings the players know they have the support of the manager, and that is a big part of our improvement with Mr Stringer. It will be fun to watch the pre-season friendlies in a couple of weeks and see the trialists, as more pieces of the squad jigsaw fall into place. Then we can turn the lights back on. And benefit from the pantomime villain's kindly shared superior football knowledge!!!

-- Edited by Jimmie on Monday 24th of June 2024 08:11:14 AM

Pre season training starts tomorrow, I'm hoping to get along later in the week to record some interviews with various people for a podcast

Gene Kennedy signs on permanant basis...good news

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Gene Kennedy signs on permanent basis...good news

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 Great news, league players now become available after contracts ended on 30th June.

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 I best turn on Twitter notifications waiting for the Jason Adigun announcement then..