Trophy Gave Us a Base for the Future

PHIL PARKINSON has an inkling what people were thinking about Nantwich Town coming into this season.

- Matt Badcock

“Everyone was probably looking and wondering, ‘Are they going to be one-season wonders?’ in terms of players and the management,” the boss tells The NLP.

Perhaps even more so with the players who moved on during the summer. An FA Trophy run to the semi-finals has its downsides too.

Success meant other clubs were soon keen to flex their muscle and take talent off the Dabbers’ hands.

Matt Kosylo stepped up to the National League North with the semi-final conqueror FC Halifax. Talented attacker Elliot Osborne joined League One side Fleetwood Town, defender Jon Moran joined Forest Green Rovers, while Liam Shotton moved to Singapore with his family.

It meant a bit of a rebuild job, especially in a forward line that was shorn of 75 goals.