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Friday, November 21, 2008, 09:54
By mid-September, without a win to their name, Grant was gone and Woking promoted his assistant Phil Gilchrist, at first as caretaker and then permanently.
Since then former Hartlepool, Oxford, Leicester and WBA defender Gilchrist has produced a marked improvement.
Woking have lost only three of their last 12 games, and only their frustrating inability to score more goals has stopped them pulling clear of the relegation zone.
They have never really replaced lanky striker Marvin Morgan, who was sold to local rivals Aldershot for £50,000 last season.
There's plenty of experience in defence.
Former Chelsea and Millwall goalkeeper Lenny Pidgeley is on loan from the Lions.
And at the back Gilchrist can choose from popular Danny Bunce, in his third season at Kingfield after a spell with Cambridge, powerful ex-Braintree and AFC Wimbledon player Paul Lorraine, Tom Hutchinson (see Player To Watch), ex-Yeovil and Port Vale stopper Colin Miles, Ivory Coast-born Patrice Mondon-Konan and Abdou El Kholti (Weymouth, Grays, Rushden).
Woking have players who can score goals from midfield.
England 'C' international Guiseppe Sole, who has graduated through the youth ranks, has scored 30 goals in 74 starts and is a free-kick specialist.
And Liam Marum, ex-Farnborough player Matt Pattison and former Arsenal, Watford, Rotherham and Weymouth man Paolo Vernazza can all shoot.
Gilchrist has just extended the loan of young striker Daniel Spencer from Leicester for another two months, and his recent partner up front has been former Yeovil starlet Wilfried Dormoraud.
Other candidates for places include Goma Lambu, youth products Delano Sam-Yorke and Charlie Moone, busy midfielder Bradley Quamina, striker Joel Ledgister, a summer signing from Oxford, and the club's second loanee from Leicester, goalkeeper Carl Pentney.
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