Staines Town kick off their pre-season schedule this Saturday when former England striker Chris Sutton brings hit Lincoln City side to Wheatsheaf Park, writes Stuart Moore.

The game is the first of a trio of warm-up matches involving Football League clubs at the Swans home in the coming weeks, and was arranged following some rather ‘out of the blue’ communication from the Sincil Bank club and Staines Town.

Chairman Alan Boon believes it was Sutton’s assistant manager, former Chelsea and West Ham United defender Ian Pearce, who helped set-up the game with the Swans Pearce had more recently been involved with local sides Kingstonian and Walton Casuals before accepting his new role in the East Midlands towards the end of the last campaign.

Following a well-earned break in the Mediterranean, Swans manager Steve Cordery returns to the training ground this week alongside assistant Craig Maskell and coach Trent Phillips to oversee a squad very similar to that which performed so well in their debut campaign in the Blue Square South last season.

Indeed, Cordery is looking forward to seeing the entirety of last season’s squad through their paces during a five week pre-season campaign which will take in no less than eleven games for the senior squad.

However, before all this, Phillips will take charge of a team made-up almost exclusively of triallists who’re hoping to earn a deal with the Swans as they take on an AFC Hayes side in a low-key match at the British Airways Concorde Club facilities in Cranford tomorrow (Tuesday).

One confirmed new face already training hard and getting to know his new team-mates is former Brentford man Ryan Peters who signed for the Swans from Braintree Town a few weeks ago.

Cordery hopes to add one or two new faces but, with a handful of clubs paying inflated process to secure deals early on, the wily supremo at Wheatsheaf Park is happy to bide his time before seeking to pick-up a couple of bargains.