Further honours have been given to some members of Braintree Town's squad in the wake of their fantastic finish to the Vanarama National League season.

Having earned a top-three place at the end of the season and pushed eventual final winners Grimsby Town all the way in the play-off semi-finals, there have been more awards coming Braintree's way this week.

Alex Woodyard and Sam Habergham have been called up into Paul Fairclough's England C squad that will face Slovakia in the International Challenge Trophy next month.

It is a fourth call-up for Woodyard and Habergham's second after both featured in England's ICT opener in the Ukraine earlier this year, however, there is no place for Chez Isaac, who also played in Kiev, this time after he finished the season with a hamstring injury.

Woodyard's call-up was added to by him also picking up a prestigious award at the National Game Awards ceremony.

He was handed the Sportsbeat Young Player of the Year award and there was a further honour for the Iron as Danny Cowley was named the Field Turf Manager of the Year.

Cowley has left Braintree since the end of the season, though, and there has been speculation that players such as Woodyard and Habergham may follow the former boss to his new place of employment, Lincoln City.

However, Braintree Town chairman Lee Harding is not worrying about the prospect of losing players this summer.

In the wake of Cowley’s departure, Harding said preliminary talks have been held with players as they always are at this stage of the year, but he was waiting to see what plans the new Iron manager will have once they are appointed.

Harding said: “We have spoken with the players and about half the squad have been offered deals for re-engagement. The players who have been offered a re-engagement deal can either accept it, decline it or do nothing and if they do nothing then after 28 days, they are free to speak to other clubs.

“But there are also those who are free agents or who have been with us on non-contract terms and they have all been invited back.

“However, our new manager will want to speak to them all.

“It may be that players A and B don’t get on with the new manager or the manager believes he can bring in better. So it’s not settled as yet but then it rarely is at this stage.

“We saw Alan Massey and Ryan Peters leave us last year and there were concerns, but we got better in.

“I don’t tend to get to fazed by this process with individual players.

“We’ve seen it so many times when players may think the grass is greener elsewhere.

“It may well be but it’s not always the case.

“If they do get a better deal elsewhere then fine as their departure will give opportunities for others to come in.”