Reginald74 wrote:

Interesting to see Grant and Pope both released by Bath, Grant a left back and Pope def/midfielder, Pope ex of Hereford but never really featured before his move to Bath previously was at Weston so imagine our assistant manager will be in touch. 

You might well be right Reg. Personally, I'd like to see Jay Foulston occupying the left back position. 
 

Well that start date should give our Manager ample time to build a competitive squad for next season. I honestly cannot see too many of last season's squad being retained, apart from Parceille of course, Joe Hanks, possibly Marlon Jackson, and hopefully Will Richards will be back with us. From the few games that I watched last season, I'm afraid we looked lightweight with no physical presence or height, and I'm surprised a manger of Mike Cook's experience seemed to not realized that those are key attributed for NLS level - let's wait and see

  I would imagine there will be a big turnover of players Toyboy, agree we certainly will need a lot of strengthening all round, conceded to many and very shot shy. Hopefully we can keep Parselle Puddy Hanks Gunner Ash and hopefully Rigg will be back but a busy summer I think. 

Trouble is you will always have two sides to the coin. Whilst I completely agree that strengthening the squad is always priority number one. Some of the players cited confuse me. I mean let's take Spence Hamilton. Looked class pre-season, coming into the start of the campaign, looked to be forging a good partnership with Kieran Parselle. Then injury came along, we had to go and find Dyer, Harrison etc on loan to cover and then as he was returning to fitness, the season stopped. Same with Greenslade. Injured when he arrived at the club however, came with the title of "Best LB in the League" and certainly in his debut against Chelmsford and games thereafter really started to show why, thought he was immense away at Welling as well. Pinging balls for fun, big work rate and a proper defender in the tackle as well. Then before we saw the best of Danny, season ends. Luke Russe, if you are noticing a holding midfielder on the pitch, something is going wrong. He is there to add cover to the defence, link the midfield and hold things down which I think he does impeccably well. Russe covers more ground than anyone, he fights tooth and nail in the middle and a lot of what allows others to flourish is off the back of a Luke Russe. I would expect to see all three of those back in the Summer and honestly, Many more to add to that list as well. We have a decent little squad there and in a league that is thoroughly competitive and some big teams in it. We really need to ensure that we are behind them as they gel behind Mike's philosophy and desire to get us up the league table. Mike has an ethos of how he wants a "Chippenham" team to play and these are the players he has chosen to do it now. We have to give it a chance, Rome wasn't built in a day. All our big achievements as a club haven't happened overnight. We sometimes need to sit through the rebuilding phase and watch as results come to fruition. Let us not forget this brand of football put us top of the form table for 11 straight games at the end of the 2019/20 season 2020/21 was a total ******** write off and now we need to be fully pulling together by the start of 2021/22 for the club to be a success on and off the pitch!