Blue Square South club Bath City have signed three players this week – including one who is 40 years of age!
Goalkeeper Owen Dunn, 20, has been signed after impressing the management.
Dunn (pictured) was with City`s former ground tenants Team Bath where he spent a year after joining from Toolstation Western League side Shepton Mallett.
City boss Adie Britton has also re-signed another keeper in Ryan Robinson, 26, after his recovery from a summer back operation.
Robinson began his career with Blackburn Rovers without making a first -eam appearance. He joined Southend United in 2003, before returning to his native North West with then Conference Premier side Morecambe.
A series of excellent displays ensured he was the first choice keeper at the Shrimps but injury cost him his place and when he failed to regain it he followed ex-manager Jim Harvey to Forest Green Rovers.
Once again he established himself as the number one and went on to play sixty-one games for Rovers before being released at the end of the 2008/09 season.
City manager Adie Britton quickly snapped him up to replace Australia-bound Paul Evans, even though he knew he would miss the beginning of the new campaign following his back operation.
The third `signing` for Bath is assistant-manager Lee Howells, who has regsitered in case of emergencies.
Australian-born Howells joined City's managerial team during the 2007 close season as coach. He had left Mangotsfield United a few weeks earlier having spent the 2006/07 season in the Cossham Street managerial hot-seat.
He began his career as a trainee with Bristol Rovers before spending four years back in his native Australia playing for Brisbane Lions and Rochedale Rovers.
Family reasons saw him return to England in November 1991 where Cheltenham Town paid AUS$2000 (about £750) for his services. This turned out to be money well spent as he went on to make 450 appearances for the Robins, playing a major part in their rise from the Southern League to the Football League Division Two.
He played his final game for Cheltenham in November 2003 before dropping into non-league football with Merthyr Tydfil, where he played under current City boss John Relish.
He switched to Mangotsfield in July 2005 as player-coach and, after a short spell with Clevedon Town in December 2005, was promoted to assistant-manager then manager in May 2006.
He became City's assistant-manager in October 2008 following John Relish's departure.
