Faversham Town boss Sammy Moore taking a leaf out of Roy Keane’s book with pre-season camping trip to boost squad’s off-field camaraderie

Faversham Town’s pre-season schedule begins with a trip to the woods.

Boss Sammy Moore wants his team to gel on and off the pitch and has organised a night out camping on Saturday - with players needing to build their own shelters.

Moore has put together an all-star team to take on the challenge in the Southern Counties East Premier Division but the task now is to get them united.

The Lilywhites boss said: “I was lucky enough to do it at Ipswich when Roy Keane was there. He did something similar and that was an experience!

“We will get the boys into teams doing different activities during the day and then it will be taken into the night time as well. It should be a good day for the club and the lads to get together, let their hair down and to get to know each other as individuals.

“We are quite lucky, most of the lads know each other anyway, either playing with each other or playing against each other. It is going to be good.

“The boys will build their own shelters and then we will have a BBQ and a few beers, a few initiation songs and it is about building relationships with each individual and each player, getting to know what they do outside of football. It is not just about a philosophy on how we want to play.

“We are all in it together this year, we have the talent and quality, it is just about the other side of the game and getting to know people and building those relationships. It is a family club and a family team, and we want them all fighting for each other.”

Training is already under way ahead of a month-long schedule of warm-up games before the season kicks off on July 29.

On Tuesday night the players ended a training session with a get-together at the club where Moore laid out his vision for the season,