
Boss Andy Sinton has hailed two-goal star Phil Trainer after seeing the midfielder fire AFC Telford United to a fourth consecutive victory.

Goalkeeper Daniel Platt is targeting a starting place in the AFC Telford United team – after making a sensational debut off the substitutes’ bench.

AFC Telford United have pulled off one of the transfer coups of the summer – signing Northern Ireland international James Lawrie.

Shifnal Town 0 - AFC Telford United 0
No goals – but plenty of food for thought for both managers after a hard-fought pre-season friendly.

Telford Tigers player-coach Tom Watkins has confirmed his final non-Brit for the season ahead – top Canadian defenceman Chris Allen, who joins on a two-year contract.

Both managers will have taken plenty away from an entertaining pre-season friendly – with AFC Telford United rather unlucky to finish on the losing side.

Telford Tigers team building nears completion, as player-coach Tom Watkins announces two more members of the squad – returning defenceman Ashley Stanton and new forward Josh Bruce.

An otherwise entertaining friendly was marred by a horror injury to Market Drayton man Tom France – who was rushed to hospital with suspected knee ligament damage.

One side has been in pre-season training more than a month, the other less than two weeks – and it sure showed at Park Hall on Tuesday.
Daniel Croft will be back patrolling the Telford blue line in September, as the former captain returns to the ice with the Tigers after a year out.