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GLENN: WE ARE A TARGET

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 August 2026

By John Lyons

PAIN GAME: Dorchester Town, pictured in stripes, suffered relegation last season

RETURNING manager Glenn Howes has urged his Dorchester Town players to embrace having a target on their backs this season.
The Magpies were relegated from Southern Premier South along with local rivals Weymouth, Tiverton Town and Hungerford Town last term – with all four dropping into Southern Division One South.
They will be seen as big-hitters at Step 4 – and opponents will be out to take their scalp.
Having returned for a second spell in charge of Dorchester at the be-...

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