Tonbridge have changed their goalkeeper just days before the start of the season.

Angels have released Anthony di Bernardo and brought in Jonny Henly, who played for the club last season on loan from Hemel Hempstead.

It's a bold move in such a key position and manager Steve McKimm knows he'll be judged by how Henly gets on.

"It’s just something I decided I wanted to do," McKimm said. "There’s no insight into it.

"Sometimes, as a manager, you’ve got to make these tough calls, big calls. If it works, it works and if it backfires on me, it backfires on me.

"I’m hopeful and I’m sure, in Jonny, that it’ll work. That’s nothing against Tony, I just wanted to do something different and that’s the decision I’ve made.

"Whether it’s right or wrong, only time will tell."

McKimm admits pre-season at Longmead hasn't been ideal but believes the squad he's put together will be competitive in Bostik Premier.

He said: "I added Craig Stone and Jay Siva to start with and George Bevan’s come back after being out with his finger so he’s like a new signing.

"We’ve got Joe Turner in there now, all my forwards have been scoring and Jonny Henly’s just come in so I’m pleased with what we’ve done, the signings we’ve got.

"If you bring three or four signings in, you’ve got to make sure they gel together. That’s our aim as a management team.

"It’s very difficult sometimes in pre-season when you’ve got schoolteachers and stuff like that because they need to go on holiday. Players don’t get paid in pre-season and sometimes it’s difficult family-wise because children are at school and the only time they can go away is the end of July and beginning of August.

"It’s difficult to get everyone on the training ground but that’s part and parcel of non-league football, that’s what you’ve got to deal with.

"It’s different if you’re full-time because you’re paying them through the summer, they’re earning a wage and they have to be there because it’s their job.

"Being part-time, they’ve got to take holidays when they can. They work hard all through the year, can’t go during the football season so, especially for players with children and schoolteachers, there’s only a certain time they can get away in the summer.

"From that perspective, it’s been very difficult to get everyone there and work on certain things but other than that, it’s been enjoyable. It was good the way we started (the friendles), had a few good results and then towards the end they were not so good but that helps us because it shows us some deficiencies we have to work on."

Tonbridge's first game is at home to Hendon on Saturday.

"We’re as ready as we’ll ever be," McKimm said. "It’s one of those. You never know what’s going to happen on that first day. It can either go really well or really bad and you can feel on top of the world or down in the dumps.

"We’ll be prepared for it, it’s just what happens on the day. You do six or seven weeks of pre-season and if you get a positive result, you’re happy but if you lose, you think ‘was all that worth it?’

"We’re raring to go and we’ll be taking Hendon not lightly at all because they’ve made some good acquisitions. It’s going to be a tough game."