NEW BOSS: Martin Allen

NEW RECRUITS: Sam Wedgbury, Will Evans and Shwan Jalal

I’ll be honest, my first taste of National League football was something of an eye-opener. After more than a decade of playing in the Football League, a day after I’d signed for Grimsby Town, in January 2015, I was on a team bus heading down to Eastleigh.
When we arrived at Ten Acres, on a freezing cold Tuesday night, we took a stroll out to look at the pitch. I remember, as I looked around at the cracked concrete terraces, the lacerated turf, a few of the lads commented on ho...