It has been a pretty dramatic football year for Frome Town - even in a sport never short of drama, highs and lows with crushing, or elated, afternoons on the pitch. 

Who would have thought with ten games to go, and riding high in the league, the club would have seen promotion hopes dashed, the players locked at home and the grass growing wild up at Badgers Hill.

For manager Danny Greaves, who has just signed for another two years, it has meant a new way of working.

Out from the dug out, he is using video conferencing and on line forums to keep his players motivated and focused and making plans for the new season over email and texts.

But with this current football season officially at an end, he has admitted he told Nub News that he is now fine if his players have some time off.

Until now they were still keeping their fitness levels up - in any way they were able - with many following an on-line training class with star player Jonathan Davies.

But it has been tough for a team , now working hard to fundraise but Danny who has been involved in football since he was 11, told Nub News that Frome does have a secret weapon - they are the fans.

He reminded us that of all the home games before the league play was suspended, the team only lost one at the ground in Badgers Hill.

The reason: " The support of the fans. They are incredible they give the players something, they make it special they make it better - and yes we would win in front of them."

Danny is obviously also in lockdown which has had one benefit, he is getting more time to spend with his two young sons.

He said: " Football has been everything to me since I started playing as a kid, I was out playing every night and then every Tuesday and Saturdays training, I was a YTS at Bristol Rovers so that was more football, I have played semi professionally and then I moved into managing, so it has been my everything.

" The rush of playing football, the huge highs when you win, the huge lows when you lose and then you pick yourself up and look at the next game, how you can play better do better what to change, what to do.

" It dominates everything you do, the rush of adrenaline, I miss it a lot. It is all about the buzz, the purity of that."

Danny's other hobbies are sport related, so those have also been put aside which has meant that he has struggled, like everyone, to be indoors.

But it is clearly the people he misses most.

Given the choice between having been able to play the season out without anyone watching and having to just stop the games, which would he prefer?

" It's not even a debate any more ,but for me it is all about the fans, our Frome fans are just fantastic, playing in front of them it meant so much. Playing in front of twenty people or two hundred or two hundred thousand ; it is about the game in front of fans. That is the emotion of football, watching in front of a video, it is not the same."

Those fans have also been some of those who have been donating to the team's crowdfunding appeal - without ticket sales or the receipts from the club house they need capital to stay afloat.

You can donate by clicking here:the crowd funder site where you can also buy your own named seat

Danny said: " I want to thank everybody who has donated to the crowd fund. I think it's absolutely magnificent what we have raised in such a short time and shows what the community is all about and what this football club means to everyone. "

And so once coronavirus is over... and football resumes, what are Danny's predictions for Frome Town in 2025?

" Up two leagues, definitely promotion, playing great football in front of double the number of fans. There is the potential we will be playing in a revamped stadium so that will be great in 2025."

And you still in charge asked Nub News?" Oh I hope so, I am only 36 , I want to be there...I want to be with Frome. They are a fantastic team. "

The team will be hosting an end of season party on Facebook tomorrow (May 1) at 7pm. You can find it here: the football team's social site