Yeovil Town played their first pre-seaosn friendly of the season at Stratford Town on Saturday afternoon naming four trialists among the substitutes.
The game was won with a Tom Knowles strike from the edge of the box, but the game of ‘Guess The Trialist’ is a staple of any pre-season warm up.
Our roving Gloverscast reporter David Coates attended the game in Warwickshire and took pictures of the hopefuls which – with a little bit of help from social media and a good degree of guesswork, we think are as follows:
Deshane Dalling
A forward player who came on for Reuben Reid at half-time at Knight’s Lane and looked to have some pace and trickery about him.
Based on 45 minutes, he looks Josh Neufville-ish rather than Josh Neufville-esque, but definitely something there.
The 22-year-old has played for non-League Staines Town and then at youth level for both Huddersfield Town and QPR where he made one first-team appearance, as an 80th minute substitute in a 5-1 FA Cup win over Swansea City in January 2020.
He started last season on loan at League of Ireland Premier Division side Cork City and made two appearances for Wealdstone in the National League last season.
Harlain Mbayo
A 71st minute substitute replacing Max Hunt alongside another trialist in the second half against Stratford.
This one we are pretty sure about, mostly because we checked with some fans at his former club Aberdeen and the player himself then liked the reply we got from them.
The 23-year-old was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he moved to Belgium at an early age and played for Anderlecht from the age of eight initially as a striker before being converted to a central defender.
His family then moved to England when Harlain was aged 15 and he joined the academy at QPR.
An interview with Aberdeen’s website in 2018 suggests he had some time with Oxford United and then non-League Bedford Town before he joined the Scottish Premier League side in 2015.
His record shows him as having spent 2015 until 2018 at Aberdeen without making a first-team appearance, before a seven-game spell at Scottish League Two side Albion Rovers in 2018.
He then appears to have made the (not insignificant) move from Scotland to Southern League Premier Division side Truro City in Cornwall and then back to Aidrie where he signed in July 2020.
Richard Afrane-Kesey
Came on in the 68th minute in place on goal-scorer Tom Knowles and took up a position down the left wing for the final 22 minutes of the pre-season friendly.
Looked to want to take players on when he got the ball but, as with all of these players, a bit harsh to judge him on a brief appearance in the opening game of pre-season.
There’s not a huge amount of information about him online except to say he began his career in the youth set-up at Charlton Athletic and in October 2020 had a loan spell at Isthmian League Premier Division side Margate.
Colin Daniel…..maybe
This is the one we are the least confident about, but social media appears to have identified the central defender playing the full second half as Colin Daniel.
The player came on in place of Luke Wilkinson at the break and looked relatively assured against the Step 4 opponents.
There is a definite similarity between the player who turned out in the number 15 shirt for the Glovers and Daniel who played 23 times in League One for Burton Albion last season, see pictured below, albeit with his final appearance coming in January.
The 33-year-old was released by the Brewers at the end of last season and would certainly bring some good experience with him having won the National League (or the Conference Premier as it 
was known then) with Mansfield Town in 2013 and got promoted out of League Two with Blackpool in 2017.
The picture, top, is the player who lined up for Yeovil at Stratford and, below, is Colin Daniel when he signed for Burton from Peterborough United in January 2019.
This one has divided opinion at Gloverscast HQ, so we’ll leave you to make your own minds up.