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Roman Leader Rollo Leads Exodus

Rome might not have been built in a day, but Non-League’s Romans certainly changed a lot in 24 hours.
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ROME might not have been built in a day, but Non-League’s Romans certainly changed a lot in 24 hours.

First it was announced on New Year’s Eve that striker Sean Canham is moving to Australia.

Then ‘Mr Bath City’ himself, Jim Rollo, appears in a Chippenham Town shirt.

I had to check it was January and not April the first – Twerton Park will never be the same again!

Canham scored 19 times in 42 games for the Blue Square Bet Southside during three loan spells from Hereford, but
it is actually with the other club that played on the famous sloping pitch – TeamBath – that I used to encounter him in my Southern Premier days with Hitchin.

The 28-year-old has moved to Melbourne because of his partner’s job, but will I’m sure find time for some football when he isn’t acquainting himself with the surf he loved so much as a youngster growing up in Devon and playing for
his hometown club, Exeter City!

Rollo, on the other hand, has stayed closer to his Keynsham home and – as you’ll read elsewhere in today’s paper –
is intent on closing his playing career with games and gongs.

At 36 years old and having been at the same club for a decade, you don’t want to go somewhere else and be like
the new kid in class; the shy kid in the corner having to make friends and earn respect.

With former City team-mates Lee Phillips, Iain Harvey, Adie Harris and Richard Fey already there, the Hardenhuish home dressing room is becoming a bit of a Chipp off the old Bath block!

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