Rangers draw after Sean Jones signs

Stafford Rangers manager Greg Clowes has taken "a lot of positives" from a pre-season draw with AFC Telford - as Sean Jones became his 20th signing for the club.

Right-back Jones sat out the game at Marston Road with a calf injury but put pen to paper on non-contract forms before the game, after spending pre-season with Clowes' men.

Rangers took a 1-1 draw from Blue Square Premier opposition last night for the second game in a row and against their local rivals to boot, taking the lead through Luke Chapman's eighth minute tap in.

AFC Telford hit back and took a share of the spoils with an equaliser after the break, substitute Alex Meechan turning two defenders on the edge of the box and placing a shot in off the post.

The Bucks included former Rangers players Lee Evans, Levi Reid and Curtley Williams in their team and could have won it at the death, Andy Brown shooting wide after ex-Wolves striker Adam Proudlock squared a ball across the face of the goal.

But Rangers, who lost striker Liam Shotton on the afternoon of the game with a toe injury, held on to record another decent pre-season result after Saturday's draw with Tamworth.

Clowes said: "The biggest factor was that it was two games in three days against high quality opposition in non-league football, so there is a lot of positives to take out of it.

"Our biggest problem in the last half an hour last night is that we were tired, we were giving the ball away a bit cheaply and that comes with tiredness.

"But I have seen enough over the last two games to think to myself that the team spirit and togetherness is knitting together quite nicely now.

"They know exactly what we expect of them as players and as a group."