Albury Hotspurs have had their busiest off-season in recent years with nine confirmed signings.
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Classy Englishman Connor O'Keefe headlines the arrivals at Aloysius Park, having relocated to the Border for work, while Jacque Ndume, Mitch Aitken and Janvier Kashindi are other new faces at the club.
League and cup winning forward Patrick Sibomana has crossed from Myrtleford, while a host of former players are back.
Promising Murray United youth goalkeeper Will Haberfield has committed pending he's not signed by Melbourne Victory, having recently trained with the A-League club's academy, while Sam Thorman, David Robin and James Eggleston have also reunited with the club.
Second-year coach Matt Townsend is excited to see what his side can produce after missing out a spot in the finals by just one point last season.
"All the older guys understand my philosophies now and what we're trying to achieve, so it's looking good," he said."
"We had a pretty decent team last year, but if we picked up an injury or something happened along the way, we didn't have any depth to cover them.
"Most of the new players are attacking players as well and we've struggled to score goals.
"Now we've got eight or nine people for four positions, it's exciting. I'm very excited."
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He expects O'Keefe to cause headaches for a number of opposition defences.
"He'll have an attacking role up there and we'll let him do his thing," Townsend said.
"He's got a really sharp, small turning circle and he's very explosive."
Aitken heard about the club through a university friend from Wollongong that hailed from the region and decided to come along to training.
The Sydney export will spend the next two years on the Border with his girlfriend undertaking placement at Albury Wodonga Health.
"I like to play in attack, but in the trial on the weekend I was playing defensive midfield and centre back, so I'll see where I end up," Aitken said.
"I spent 16 years at Engadine Crusaders, one of the smaller clubs in the (Sutherland) shire.
"I played on the wing for them last year, but I'm expecting it will be a bit of a step up in the AWFA."
Thorman was among the club's leading scorers in 2017, before taking two seasons off to focus on his apprenticeship as a mechanic.
"There's a lot of new faces here and a lot of young blokes coming up who are showing a lot of promise," Thorman said.
"I'm hoping to get back and kick a few more goals.
"I've wanted to come back and I haven't gone away from the sport, but I got a couple of messages from the boys asking when I was coming back, so I said I would."
Senior captain Luke Dahl is the only major departure having relocated to Geelong for university.