It's all-go at Welling United

After a relegation scrap last season that went to the wire, Welling United are beginning to execute on some ambitious plans to turn the fortunes of the club.

Owner and one-time manager, Mark Goldberg, has stepped away from the day-to-day running of the club to concentrate on plans for "new ground development at Park View Road." To be fair, I think he has been pre-occupied with this for a couple of seasons and the club has suffered as a result. 

Local businessman, Paul Whitehead, has stepped in as Chairman and a revised management board now includes long-term Wings supporters Gary Fiore and Matt Mein. Paul Whitehead outlined some ambitious plan on their You Tube channel and they seem to be working at pace to make as many improvements as they can ahead of the start of the new season.

Already they have had a clean-up day when supporters helped remove tons of old equipment and rubbish that has built up around the ground of the last few seasons. Urgent work to fix broken terracing at the Danson Park end is planned and a new pitch is being laid with plans for a 3G.

There is even talk of moving the pitch back ten yards and building a covered stand on the Park View Road end if I understood that correctly. I assume that will be subject tom planning permission and likely to form part of Goldberg's wider development ambitions. 

The commercial team has been strengthened and are ambitious to further extend hospitality facilities from the already successful Wings Bar. 

More encouragingly, since the end of the season there has been a steady stream of decent new signings on contract terms as well as some extensions which suggest that the ridiculous merry-go-round of players seen last season may have come to an end. Manager Warren Feeney has signed-on for another year and there is every reason to be hopeful that Welling can compete at the right end of the National League South once again.

All things being well, I will get over to more games at Park View Road next season. That might be a lot more games if Charlton don't get their act together.