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Steve Housham

....be "very strange" to be in the visitors' dugout when they take on his former club Brigg Town.

Housham, who joined Brian Little's management team at the Northolme in time for the pre-season campaign, spent nine years at the Hawthorns as player, captain and manager of the Evo-Stik League First Division South side. But on Sunday he will be part of the new-look Trinity camp which hopes to start their pre-season campaign with a win over his old club and their new boss Pete Daniels.

"It is going to be very strange being at the Brigg Town ground, but sitting in the visitors' dug-out," he said.

"We will also be getting changed in the visitors' dressing room which will also be weird.

"I had a good nine years at Brigg and made a lot of friends. So it is sure to feel very strange going there with a new team and trying to get one over on them.

"I think it will be a very different team to the one I left behind, because I have heard on the grapevine that a lot of players left to go elsewhere.

"That often happens in football and I'm sure the new manager there will have his own ideas of the players he wants to bring in.

"I don't know Pete all that well but he has called me on a few occasions to ask about players I have known locally. And he is an experienced manager who I'm sure can do well at Brigg."

Trinity will take a full squad to Brigg, with up to twenty-four players travelling for the game against the Zebras.

The match is the first of seven pre-season fixtures designed to help Little mould his new-look squad for the start of the Blue Square Bet North season which starts on Saturday, August 13th, against Solihul Moors.

"We have had a lot of new players training with us at Gainsborough," he said.

"They will all travel, and most will see some kind of action.

"But there will be a couple we don't want to risk. Lewis McMahon is carrying a knock to his ankle so he will probably sit this one out.

"There is so much competition for places this season and the lads are aware of that so they are working very hard.

"But as a group we need to do that because we need to be prepared.

"We have to improve on last season and we want to give the fans a season to remember."

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