AN EVENTFUL SUMMER TO SAY THE LEAST

ON April 25, 2009, Rhyl were crowned Welsh Premier League champions.
In the 109 days since then so much has happened at Belle Vue it has been hard to keep up.
Here is a summary of events (some actual dates may not be 100% exact)....

May 5: Four Rhyl players named in the Welsh Premier League Dream Team for 2008/09 - George Horan, Gareth Owen, Craig Jones and Neil Roberts. Lee Kendall is among the substitutes.
May 5: Gareth Owen is voted the Principality Welsh Premier League Player of the Season. Neil Roberts comes second and George Horan third.
May 12: Winger Craig Jones leaves Rhyl and joins TNS.
May 15: Striker Jamie Reed quits Belle Vue to make a short-lived trip to the USA to try to break into Major League soccer.
May 15: Joe Furnival resigns as secretary of Rhyl FC.
May 21: Rhyl are fined £250 plus £50 costs for abusive, obscene and provocative behaviour by supporters during the Welsh Premier game at Aberystwyth on 15 February 2009.
May 25: Rhyl withdraw their reserve team from the Welsh Alliance League.
May 27: Rhyl release ex-Wrexham pair Josh Johnson and Michael Jones.
May 27: Luke Holden re-commits himself to the Lilywhites, but midfielder Gareth Wilson is given permission to talk to other clubs.
June 3: Rhyl apply to enter reserve team in new Clwyd Reserves League.
June 6: Rhyl make their first major signing of the summer - ex-TNS defender Martyn Naylor.
June 8: Former TNS midfielder John Leah follows one-time team-mate Naylor to Belle Vue.
June 8: Rhyl announce Kevin Davies is the new club secretary.
June 12: Carl Owen says goodbye to Belle Vue and signs for Airbus.
June 13: Gareth Wilson and Paul O'Neill become the latest members of Rhyl's title-winning squad to leave the club - both join Prestatyn Town.
June 13: Rhyl also release Chris Roberts, who soon joins Bangor City. Roberts becomes the eighth player to depart Belle Vue this summer.
June 15: Striker Lee Hunt rejoins Rhyl after a season away in the English pyramid.
June 22: Rhyl draw Serbian giants Partizan Belgrade in the Uefa Champions League.
June 22: Head coach Allan Bickerstaff announces he is bringing in ex-Wales and Nottingham Forest midfielder Paul Evans on loan, but the arrangement is over almost before it starts.
June 27: Rhyl travel to SPL side Motherwell for a hastily-arranged friendly and win 3-1.
June 29: It is revealed Rhyl will open the 2009/10 Welsh Premier season at home to Carmarthen and the Lilywhites are drawn in the same group as Prestatyn Town and Airbus in the League Cup.
July 4: Rhyl announce Welsh FAW technical director Osian Roberts will lead the side in the two matches against Partizan Belgrade as Allan Bickerstaff will be unavailable due to a family commitment.
July 4: In a second pre-season friendly Rhyl comfortably beat Denbigh Town 4-1.
July 8: Rhyl Reserves are accepted into the Clwyd Reserves League.
July 8: Allan Bickerstaff reveals there are unlikely to be any more signings at Rhyl before Europe.
July 10: Rhyl win 3-1 at Colwyn Bay in a friendly - their last game before facing Partizan.
July 14: Not the greatest of nights for the Lilywhites as they lose the home leg against Partizan 4-0.
July 21: The return match in Belgrade ends 8-0 to Partizan. The 12-0 aggregate thrashing is the heaviest defeat suffered by a Welsh Premier club in Europe.
July 28: Rhyl are held 0-0 by Prestatyn Town in a friendly at Belle Vue.
July 29: Danny Williams, a key midfielder for Rhyl last season, joins Droylsden of the Conference North.
July 30: Allan Bickerstaff is Rhyl's head coach no more. Both Bickerstaff and the club insist the parting is amicable. Greg Strong, a defender in the Lilies' title-winning side, is appointed player manager.
Aug 1: Strong's first game in charge brings an impressive 3-2 win over Witton Albion.
Aug 3: Rhyl FC quash rumours that the club is to go into administration, but admit that budgets will have to be "reformulated" after FAW deny a second advance on their Champions League prize money.
Aug 7: Lee Kendall becomes the 10th member of Rhyl's championship squad to leave the club. The keeper negotiates the settlement of a contract which had three years to run, citing the travelling to and from South Wales as the main reason for him leaving. Kendall joins Port Talbot the next day.

Players who have left Belle Vue this summer: Lee Kendall, Chris Roberts, Paul O'Neill, Gareth Wilson, Carl Owen, Michael Jones, Josh Johnson, Jamie Reed, Danny Williams, Craig Jones.
Players who have come in: Lee Hunt, John Leah, Martyn Naylor.
Today, as things stand, Greg Strong has a 13-man squad minus the youngsters who have featured in pre-season friendlies whose futures at the club are unknown.
Further departures have been rumoured but none confirmed. Strong is working on bringing in new faces and hopes to announce his squad for the 2009/10 season tomorrow.