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Under-18s get news they wanted

by Howard Milton

Dorchester Town under-18s' general manager Phil Basford has welcomed the arrival of the club's new majority shareholder Eddie Mitchell and director of football Shaun Brooks.

Basford, together with team manager Trevor Senior, met Brooks to discuss plans for the youth set-up at the Avenue Stadium and was pleased with what he heard.

"Shaun said he was fully behind the under-18s," said Basford. "We were very pleased by the fact he is backing us. It is what we wanted to hear. It is exciting times and what Dorchester Town have been crying out for, someone who has been interested in developing the youth set-up.

"He has his work cut out with sorting out the first team at the moment but they wanted to develop youth players, not only homegrown ones, but also people who have been released from the academies and want or need a second chance.

"We want to develop the under-18 side at Dorchester as an alternative to players who may go to AFC Bournemouth and the like. It is still early days but why not come to Dorchester and get into professional football that way?"

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