Braintree Town manager Danny Cowley expects to have his squad fully in place by the time they are next in pre-season action on home turf at Cressing Road.

The Iron boss will take his team on a mini tour this weekend as they head to Bury Town tonight (kick-off 7.45pm) and will remain together in Suffolk before a game at Lowestoft Town on Saturday (kick-off 3pm).

And those fixtures will give Cowley the chance to finalise his plans as he wants to have his full squad in place ahead of Tuesday’s home game against League Two side Dagenham and Redbridge (kick-off 7.45pm).

He said he is still looking to bring another centre-half into the squad, but feels he is almost where he wants to be.

“We are getting there and we’ll be decided over the weekend,” said Cowley. “We are virtually there now.

“Friday (at Bury) and Saturday (at Lowestoft) are pretty unique and we’ll look at what times we give the boys on back-to-back days.

“You have to be a bit intelligent but then the last couple of games can be used to look more towards August 8 and the start of the season.”

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