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AFC Rushden & Diamonds:
Courtney Lashley | Evangelos-Nikalaos Empochontsif | Jenson Cooper | Matthew Lars Fossen | Nathan Hicks | Tyrese Sutherland

Alvechurch:
Jed Abbey | Leo Brown | Manny Olaloko | Tom Edge

Barwell:
None

Basford United:
Adam Chapman | Anthony Dwyer | Ben Starkie | Brad McGowan | Gregg Smith | Harvey Grice | Josh Barnes | Riece Bertram | Stern Irvine | Tyreace Palmer

Bedford Town:
Jack Keeble | Kai Phelan | Liam Brooks | Luke Pennell | Matt Moloney | Sam Warburton | Tyrone Lewthwaite

Bromsgrove Sporting:
Andre Brown | Callum King-Harness | Charlie Shaw | Dan Sweeney | George Forsyth | Harvey Gregson | Jack Byrne | James Fry | Joe Curtis | Johno Atherton | Mike Taylor | Ryan Edmunds | Ryan Pryce

Coalville Town:
Andi Thanoj | Ashley Chambers | George Wilson | Paul White | Tendai Chitiza

Hednesford Town:
Adam Marusiak | Harry Manton | Joe Cuff | Lewis Gwilliams | Luke Rowe | Sam Wilding | Taylor Carter-Byrne

Hitchin Town:
Callum Kane | Delsin Ackom | Finley Wilkinson | George Devine | Jack Morrell | Tiernan Parker | Toby Syme

Ilkeston Town:
Ben O’Hanlon | Ben Turner | Chris O’Grady | Jamie Ward | Kalern Thomas | Saul Deeney | Tomasz Bukowski

Kings Langley:
Hafed Al Droubi | James Kaloczi | James Mulley | Josh Boorn | Noyan Tajbakhsh

Leiston:
Jake Spooner | Kyle Sore | Rossi Jarvis | Ryan Jarvis | Wyatt Hill | Zach Dronfield

Mickleover:
Callum Chettle | Elliott Reeves | Marcus Marshall | Ryan Wilson

Needham Market:
Christian Frimpong | Harry Knights | Jacob Lay | Jamie McGrath | Ross Crane

Nuneaton Borough:
Cain Noble | Chris Lait | Jaden Charles | Kane Richards | Liam Castle | Matt Stenson | Prince Mancinelli | Revarnelle James | Ryan Beswick | Tyrell Waite

Redditch United:
Bernard Mensah | Cam Moore | Daniel Gyasi | Dylan Hart | Reece Flanagan | Ryan Nesbitt | Yan Osadchyi

Royston Town:
George Ironton | Jarid Robson | Jay Rolfe | Max Bustamante Macaire | Nathan Tshikuna

Rushall Olympic:
Aaron Harper-Bailey | Alex Cameron | Alex Fletcher | Andy Wycherley | Jake Weaver | Jayden Campbell | Johno Atherton | Keith Lowe | Sam Mantom | Sam Moore | Will Shorrock

St Ives Town:
Enoch Andoh | Johnny Herd | Jonathan Edwards | Julien Saka | Kane Lewis | Lewis Lembikisa | Myles Cowling | Owen Sheriff

Stourbridge:
Alex Moore | Callum Gittings | Chris Knight | Joel Kettle | Rackeem Reid

Stratford Town:
Curvin Ellis | Dexter Walters | James O’Neill | Jamie Molyneux | Josh Endall | Josh Hawker | Kurtis Revan | Lucas Powell | Paul McCone

Tamworth:
AJ George | Alex Bradley | Alex Collard | Ben Milnes | George Cater | Kyle Finn | Liam Dolman | Luke Fairlamb | Matt Curley | Ty Deacon

Make that one for us now! Jesse is a good start.

One name sticks out on there for Ilkeston, Chris O'Grady?? Name from the past but only a couple of years ago he was playing in league 1. Ilkeston I recall announced a retained list pretty much immediately after their season had finished, so I'm assuming they must have a good budget!

Budget wise so have new boys Basford Utd, they signed a player on a 2 Year Contract, you don,t do that without money, Ilkeston and Basford could give Tamworth and Coalville a fight for the Top

Besides the obvious I think Bromsgrove have done some decent business there. Brown, Sweeney, Fry, Taylor and Edmunds are all decent players at this level. Can't see them struggling like they did last year.

Ilkeston clearly have some £ and must have a seriously high average age looking at that. Ben Turner, Chris O'Grady, Jamie Ward and Saul Deeney are all well in to their 30's and the latter 3 are closer to 40!

Cam Moore signed for Redditch from Loughborough Students last week, I wonder if he played for them against us last weekend.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/sport/sports/fo ... ort/squad/

Think he did. Thought he was their best player, as well as their big striker who was a constant pain in the backside for Ryan and Paddy.

Well we are just days away from the opening day and there are 2 clubs that seem to not have announced any signings at all.

Barwell - there is a Barwell supporter on Twitter who posted a week ago that there are lots of squad changes so it will be interesting to see who lines up for them.

Needham Market - they signed a new website this summer rather than players

If those 2 clubs had forums I would guess there would be a few fans concerned at the lack of player announcements, unless they have Facebook groups.

Tamworth also have AJ George and Luke Fairlamb

Needham Market have announced 5 signings.

That's a total of 151 summer movers, not all have been mentioned on the Southern League website, including the 2 that Sussex Diamond pointed out so the actual number could be higher.

Bromsgrove Sporting are the 'Top Signers' with 13 and upon looking at their team photo which is the Southern League's Season Preview I noticed that they are managed by former K*ttering Town manager Thomas Baillie who I think actually won this league with them so I am surprised that wasn't mentioned in the preview as that should stand them in good stead.

Adrian wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:44 am they are managed by former K*ttering Town manager Thomas Baillie who I think actually won this league with them so I am surprised that wasn't mentioned in the preview as that should stand them in good stead.

Baillie was actually joint manager, in tandem with Scott Machin, at the Ploppies when they won promotion at Step level 4 about 7 years ago but his contract was not renewed much to his annoyance and Marcus Law was the manager when they achieve promotion from the SLPC in our first season at Step 3 level. I wondered whether Baillie applied for the vacant position with us when Andy Peakes resigned?
Baillie was previously manager at Stratford Town and Director of Football at Tamworth until last February shortly before Peakes was appointed. He was also in charge of Youth Football about 12-13 years ago at the Ploppies being based in the Corby area with Norwich City scouting for local talent.