Seaside Defeat For Rovers
With many of the squad unavailable to make the long trip to the seaside it was a much changed Rovers' side who faced Skegness in their penultimate friendly. Unfortunately, Rovers slipped to a narrow defeat.
Final Score: Skegness Town 2 - 0 Gresley Rovers
Final Score: Skegness Town 2 - 0 Gresley Rovers
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Gresley Rovers are gearing up for their penultimate pre-season friendly this weekend as they make the trip to the Lincolnshire coast to take on Skegness Town. Despite facing a number of player availability issues, manager Carl Abbott remains optimistic about the progress made in rebuilding his squad ahead of the new United Counties League campaign which starts next weekend.
A solitary early goal saw the hosts hang on for a friendly win.
Stapenhill 1 - 0 Gresley Rovers
This afternoon we make the short trip to take on Stapenhill at Maple Grove. Kick off 3pm.
Admission £5 Adult, £3 Concessions, u16's free.
Another signing is 17 year old central defender who arrives at the club with an excellent pedigree having spent his formative years with Birmingham City, before captaining an excellent AFC Wulfrunians u18’s last season as a first year youth player in a floodlit youth league.
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Central defender Louis Anthony arrives at the club from Stone Old Alleynians. Louis has impressed in both of the club's friendly fixtures so far in pre-season and has looked a big, strong, physical presence.
Louis has good experience at the level, and is a very solid addition to the developing squad.
Speaking on his new addition manager Carl Abbott said: "Louis is one that we had just been working away at in the background for a few weeks now, and really pleased to finally get this confirmed. He is a big strong lad, who will give us that physical presence we feel we need, especially in light of going into a new season at the football club for the first time without Alex Morris and Mason Frizelle. That was the bedrock of our success here previously and it is important that we can foster something similar in this new group”.
The last kick of the match handed the home side the win. Many changes to both sides made for a scrappy game but a goal from Jack Andrews gave Rovers the lead but on the stroke of half time Lichfield leveled things. A draw looked certain until the final seconds.
Final Score: Lichfield City 2 - 1 Gresley Rovers
