Grant Smith

Goalkeeper - Bromley
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Grant Smith

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The Bromley Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Bromley

0‑2 against Millwall, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Damola Ajayi at 20 — 7.74

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Damola Ajayi did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Carlos Richards is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Carl Jenkinson in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bromley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bromley come up short against Swindon Town

Swindon Town left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Damola Ajayi

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Grant Smith gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Ashley Charles falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for David Muñoz

Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

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The Bromley Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Damola Ajayi

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Bromley

Corey Whitely was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bromley against Barrow AFC

1‑2 to Barrow AFC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Grant Smith

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Grant Smith, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Bromley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle Cameron is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Bromley

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad

Ben Thompson dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

Still no ink between Bromley and Louis Flower

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bromley, another week without a signature from Louis Flower.

Market

Alex Stepien-Iwumene placed on the list

Bromley have made Alex Stepien-Iwumene available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief