APRIL
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MARCH
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LEE VAUGHAN SIGNS (23/03/23)
Bards have today announced the signing of experienced right back Lee Vaughan who captained Stourbridge who is added to our squad page. Lee has also played over 600 games for Cheltenham Town and also played for Barnet, Solihull Moors and Kidderminster Harriers. Lee’s wikipedia page – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Vaughan
CHARLIE WILLIAMS SIGNS 10 March
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FEBRUARY
Welcome to Kieron, Morgan and Josh (28/2/23)
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KYLE BENNETT JOINS THE BARDS (14/2/23)
Experienced midfielder Kyle Bennett has joined The Bards – another one with Hednesford Town links and was their vice captain. Kyle has plenty of football league experience especially for Doncaster and Portsmouth where he made over 100 appearances. He dropped down to non league with Telford Utd and The Pitmen before joining Bards – Pitmen web
more – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bennett_(footballer)
ISON IN, TAYLOR LEAVES AFTER HIS 4TH SPELL (10/2/23)
Lewis Ison has signed for the Bards from Hednesford Town where he was captain so it’s good to have a another leader in the team. He was an ever-present in the side and showed his versatility, playing in various midfield roles and at centre-back and regularly scored. He was named the supporters’ Player of the Year at the end of the 21/22 campaign – pitmen web
https://southern-football-league.co.uk/News/133297/Ison-Switches-to-League-Rivals
The Beast Mikey Taylor has left after his 4th spell – scoring 2 goals in 11 appearances (4 as sub). Will he return again??
JANUARY
2 NEW BARDS AND JACK BACK (27/01/23)
DAWSEY RETURNS TO YEOVIL (14/1/23)
The club have stated in their Royston match report that Will Dawes has returned to Yeovil after being here on loan.
2 IN ON LOAN FROM CHELTENHAM (14/1/23)
https://www.stratfordtownfc.co.uk/news/a-pair-of-loan-robins-ready-to-face-the-crows-on-saturday – Youngsters Callum Ebanks and Adulai Sambu have joined on loan from Cheltenham. Callum played against for us for Cheltenham back in July in the pre season friendly.
Both have been added to our current players list showing their previous clubs on loan and both have played a couple of times for Cheltenham.
Adulai is a right sided player – wing-back, right hand side of midfield and featured as a make shift striker on his debut! He scored 11 goals in 13 games on loan at Cirencester inclusing a hat-trick in the FA Trophy at Basingstoke.
Callum is a powerful centre-forward who scored four times in an 8-4 FA Youth Cup victory over Portsmouth.
BUNGA AND CHAMBERS JOIN – RILEY LEAVES (7/1/23)
Defender Hamilton Bunga who played for The Bards v Kings Langley was at Rushden and Diamonds until Boxing Day – his previous clubs are listed on our previous clubs page. According to the league website, striker Karnell Chambers has also re-joined. Karnell first joined us in March 2020 and made 1 start before Covid ended the season. 2 years later he made 1 sub appearance at BarwelL
Redditch United have announced they have singed Martin Riley. Ashley Sammons who recently left has re-joined Halesowen and Jack Storer is now playing in Gibraltar for Bruno’s Magpies – see where are they now for other players destinations
CODY23 SHIRT RETIRED AND BLESSED 05/01/23
from club twitter
The club is also looking at setting up a Cody Fisher Community Fund associated to the academy with funds used for young adults to get a coaching license to be able to coach kids in schools like Cody did.
Stratford Town Independent Supporters Association 