{"id":542567,"date":"2020-01-31T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542567"},"modified":"2022-01-01T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:25:50","slug":"forest-green-rovers-sign-defender-chris-stokes-from-stevenage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/forest-green-rovers-sign-defender-chris-stokes-from-stevenage\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Green Rovers Sign Defender Chris Stokes From Stevenage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forest Green Rovers<\/a> have signed defender Chris Stokes. The defender arrives on a permanent deal from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stevenage<\/a> and becomes Forest Green\u2019s sixth January signing.<\/p>\n<h2>Forest Green Sign Defender Chris Stokes<\/h2>\n<h2>The Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Forest Green announced via their website they had signed the defender. Stokes arrives for an undisclosed fee from Stevenage, signing a short-term deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes returns to the New Lawn determined to get Forest Green into League One. He is a vastly experienced full-back who has played for the likes of Coventry City, Bury and most recently Stevenage. Stokes will leave the League Two relegation battle to join the League Two promotion battle.<\/p>\n<p>He is a reliable full-back who will compete with captain Joseph Mills for the left-back slot in the Forest Green team.<\/p>\n<p>He is not eligible to feature this weekend but will be ready to make his debut in eight days time in Forest Green\u2019s next league game.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the Forest Green website about his move, Stokes said: \u201cI was delighted when I first heard about it and driving in this evening, it felt like it did, driving in all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club have gone up and up and up. It is what I had hoped to achieve when I first signed here, but it didn\u2019t quite happen for the side I was part of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched the progress from afar and now I\u2019m back, hopefully, we can kick on again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a similar ride in my career, I\u2019ve gone up and took the step to League One and enjoyed my time with Coventry and won trophies, which is what you want to achieve as a player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had back-to-back promotions out of this division and hopefully I can get a third. That is what I have come here for, to achieve things with Forest Green.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t achieve it the first time, so now I\u2019m coming back, I want to get promotion on my CV with this football club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"4HblcwH3S0ZL2OSKZQihJw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1175356684\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4HblcwH3S0ZL2OSKZQihJw',sig:'GaDSPTOaa6FtvcBsXVNjhdNND9YteTrkcim0bNgUpmM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1175356684',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Green Rovers have signed defender Chris Stokes. The defender arrives on a permanent deal from Stevenage and becomes Forest Green\u2019s sixth January signing. Forest Green Sign Defender Chris Stokes The Deal Forest Green announced via their website they had signed the defender. Stokes arrives for an undisclosed fee from Stevenage, signing a short-term deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":542598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,30,28],"tags":[4841,168,1356,3089,136],"class_list":["post-542567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-news","category-transfers","tag-chris-stokes","tag-efl","tag-forest-green-rovers","tag-stevenage","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}