Baltimore Blast professional soccer player David Bascome will be the guest speaker during a special meeting at Somerset Cricket Club next Tuesday.

Bascome has been invited to further assist the club's football programme which has been on the up following coach Dennis Brown's return at the beginning of the 2003-04 season.

In only one season at the helm of the club's football programme, the former national team player guided Trojans, once a dominant force on the local soccer scene, back to the Premier Division and the First Division Shield.

In addition to speaking to players and parents, Bascome will lay down guidelines for the club's coaching staff to follow during hands-on coaching courses next Wednesday and Thursday at the West End club.

"David has been in a professional environment for at least 12 years now and I felt it was incumbent for us to try and gain some of that knowledge within our organisation," explained Brown, who also enjoyed a successful coaching stint at Wolves.

"David can assist us, not only from a coaching perspective, but also from an administrative point as well as it relates to dealing with sponsors and stuff like that. So it (meeting) isn't all about football but also about overall organisation on how a club should be run."

In addition to having new floodlights erected at the grounds, Somerset have also profited on the transfer market during the off season. Now on their way to Cricket Lane are Bermuda World Cup players Rohaan Simons, Clevon Hill and Stephen Astwood while Keion Simmons and Stevie Burrows are set to join from neighbouring Somerset Eagles.

Eagles' pair Musceo Hunt ? still recovering from an ankle injury ? and Sean Simmons have also expressed an interest in joining Trojans' ranks.

Brown added: "Somerset have the infrastructure in place to take their overall football programme to another level and so we felt it was incumbent to invite David up to the club to speak to our coaches and help to take our programme to the level where it should be and can be."