Two Fans Favourites Commit to Gosport

Good news for Boro supporters ahead of the new 2021/22 campaign.

Shaun Gale, manager of Pitching In Southern Football League Premier Division South club Gosport Borough, has begun his squad building ahead of 2021/22 with the retention of two of the club’s fans favourites in Rory Williams and Dan Wooden.

Left-back Williams re-joined Gosport in July 2019, having initially joined Dorking Wanderers in June 2019 from Vanarama National League South rivals Havant & Waterlooville.

He spent three seasons at Westleigh Park, having previously played for Gosport and Hamble Club.

He played 144 games for the Hawks, scoring 13 goals, and was named National League South player of the month in February 2018.

Wooden, 31, is a striker who returned to Boro in the summer of 2020 from Southern Division One South side Moneyfields.

He had re-joined the Moneys in early March 2020 having originally signed for them in December 2016 from Gosport for an undisclosed fee.

He joined Boro whilst they were in the Southern League Division One South & West and went onto to firmly write himself in the club`s history books.

He was an integral part of the promotion-winning squad of 2011/12 which saw the-then Gosport squad gain promotion to the Southern Premier via the play-offs.

But it was the following season where his exploits truly made all the difference as he scored well over 30 goals as they terrorised countless defences in the Premier Division.

It was his goal in the play-off semi-final at Stourbridge that set Gosport on course for the final at Hemel Hempstead Town - Boro were promoted via a penalty shoot-out after the game had ended 2-2 after extra-time.

The following season in the Conference South saw him feature prominently once again.

The fairytale run to Wembley in the FA Trophy final was entwined with another good season for him and the popular man played a part under the arch as a second half substitute in Gosport’s 4-0 defeat against Cambridge United.

The following two seasons saw him score some spectacular goals including a memorable effort against Havant & Waterlooville in the 2015 Boxing Day derby which propelled him to national fame, as TV stations and numerous newspapers and magazines publicised the `wonder strike`.

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