Histon chairman Gareth Baldwin has made it clear the club will search far and wide for new players and not focus only on their local area.

Damien Reeves became the Stutes' first signing of the close-season this week but will commute to the Cambridgeshire club from his home near Doncaster.

Baldwin told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "I think signing someone from Doncaster was a bit of a culture shock for us.

"We've always signed people from within 20 minutes of the ground when we can."

Interview: Histon chairman Gareth Baldwin

He added: "It's a totally different animal this year and we even went down and met with someone in Plymouth.

In the next 10 days we hope to have the next breakthrough Histon chairman Gareth Baldwin

"When you're travelling that far you're thinking 'that's definitely a relocation job'.

"We certainly haven't put any barriers in the way of people who are travelling and certainly in the next 10 days we hope to have the next breakthrough."

Baldwin said he hopes a seventh-place finish in the Blue Square Premier will encourage players to join.

"We're obviously the new kids on the block so last year people were probably looking and thinking 'I don't want to go there' because they're not sure what's going to happen," he said.

"We've now got a track record and while no one can get carried away with seventh in year one, certainly it's better than finishing fifth-bottom, just staying up and then trying to encourage people to come to us."

After Reeves' arrival at the Glass World Stadium Baldwin hopes more will soon follow.

He said: "The two players we're talking to at the moment have Football League experience so the challenge we always face with that is finance.

"But it's been surprising that we are quite an attractive option for people, purely because we are well organised and can always get people to give good references for us."