An Exciting Pre-Season As We Near Blast-Off

It has been an interesting summer to say the least, whilst the World Cup gripped the nation, staff at Non League Football Tips HQ have been working hard ready for the new season. Just as football clubs seek to have the perfect preparation, this has also been something we have put into practice. We now enter our third season offering football tips for our loyal fanbase and this one is set to be the most promising yet. Our experience, knowledge and organisation has never been greater, which has been showcased by our treks across the country watching countless pre-season games, compiling reports and working on a brand new system which will aid our selections.

Currently we are working on our first batch of selections which will be in just 10 days time covering the npower League 2. This league looks like it could be a tight one this year with many teams looking to compete for promotion. It will be very important to make sure we have our information spot on, there already looks like a couple of tasty bets for the opening day of the season. We will certainly be focusing on the physcological side of things which could mean we will side with home teams. It will be interesting to see how former non league sides, Oxford United and Stevenage fair on the opening day.

There have not been a lot of clues in pre-season results, for instance relegation favourites Macclesfield have had a blinding pre-season going unbeaten. It is important to not pay too much attention to pre-season however it does help. We will be looking forward to using our new number crunching system which will help us filter out strong cases for backing.

There are a few interesting ones to look out for, one being Stockport County. The northern side who were relegated from League One last season have only added 3 players to the side that went into freefall last season. They travel to fellow relegated side Southend next weekend, however Southend have managed to make a couple of big signings even with a transfer embargo over them. That is set to be lifted as a sell-on clause of nearly half a million pounds is about to give the Essex club the chance to further strengthen and they must look a bargain 11/10 to beat almost the same group of players that they did at home last season 2-1.

Aldershot are another team to keep an eye on, whilst our mindset will be to side with the home teams on the opening day, the fact that Aldershot's pre-season has been ultra impressive and the additions to their side should give them an excellent chance for an away day win against relegation favourites Accrington Stanley.

So plenty to ponder and of course the tips won't be released until a day before the season begins, we of course will be working away making sure your selections are as solid as possible.

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