With their only previous season in the top flight ending in relegation Nottingham are determined to make a bigger impact on their return. Michael wright has made wholesale changes to the squad that won promotion back to division one at the first attempt, with only 17 year old Riley Mitchell remaining in the side that finished last season at the Greyhound Stadium. Even the Kiwi’s place is far from assured, the WU19 finalist currently on the transfer listed, although he was used at second string in the second of the side’s pre-season meetings by Wright this week. Derek Chandler—who finished last season out on loan at Denston—returns as Nottingham’s new number one, having failed to see out SL32 with the East Midlanders following his £1/2million switch from Stone Cross this time last year. Pre-season in SL33 has seen another big refresh at heat leader, with Tobias Schneider and Fredrik Ericsson joining Chandler in the lead trio following full transfers from Timperley and Sawley respectively, the former leaving the Titans after a hugely successful decade with the club, in which time he won two league title winning medals and numerous other prizes. Both add vital top flight experience for the Knights own bid for silverware, as does Soren Soenksen, who completes what will be—on paper at least—the most powerful top four in the country. Soenksen, the SL31 World Championship runner-up, joins Nottingham from Rugby for £400,000, a figure that could look like a bargain come the end of the season, given at 28 the Danish international should be in his prime.