{"id":11902,"date":"2015-07-22T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roystontownfc.co.uk\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:46:09","slug":"pre-season-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/?p=11902","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Season Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Hi to you all. <br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Hope everyone had a great Summer and a good break.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Yes, football&#39;s back and I for one can&#39;t wait for it all to start properly.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The players have been back now for over two weeks, starting on June 30th. With a mix of hard training and some warm up games, the general feeling has been &quot;So far so good&quot;.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">ALL of the lads came back with a good basic level of fitness. What was especially pleasing was the exceptional attitude and enthusiasm shown.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">As with any pre-season it hasn&#39;t all gone &quot;Plain sailing&quot;. Our new striker Chris Dillon so far hasn&#39;t been involved due to an ankle injury that has impeded him a little. We believe that with the right rehab he will be fine.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Results wise, they have been pretty good with us winning 3 out of the 4 &quot;Warm-up games&quot;.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">We have tried to get all lads equal game time without picking any injuries up along the way.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">For me it starts to get serious now with a game against a &quot;Higher level&quot; team in Wingate &amp; Finchley followed by Stevenage then our first competitive game against Cheshunt in the Herts Charity Cup.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Still classed as friendlies but now with an edge to move us forward towards the start!<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">A quick welcome to our new recruits. <br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Ryan Towner<\/strong> &#8211; a lad I worked with at Stevenage, he played for Chesham last year. <br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Daniel Brathwaite<\/strong> &#8211; another lad who played his football at Chesham.<br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Chris Dillon<\/strong> &#8211; our recruit from St Neots.<br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Lewis Donovan<\/strong> &#8211; a young lad who has been out of football for a year getting his teaching qualifications. 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