Ballymena United manager Oran Kearney believes a busy summer transfer window has allowed him to put his "own stamp" on the Sky Blues' squad.
Kearney is preparing for his first full season in the Showgrounds dugout after replacing Jim Ervin last December.
Ballymena have signed 10 new players and 18 have left the side in what has been a summer of transition after a lacklustre ninth placed finish last season.
"There has been a huge number of ins and outs and that is not ideal," Kearney told BBC Sport NI.
"You would not want it through a run of windows, but I think for this window it was important to try and put your own stamp on it and a level of freshness about us.

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An eight-year-old girl was among three members of the same family found dead in what is being treated as a double murder and suicide.
A murder investigation was launched after the three people - a 41-year-old man, a 39-year-old woman and the girl - were found at a house on the Cullybackey Road in Ballymena at 09:00 BST on Monday.
Supt William Calderwood described how emergency services were met with a "shocking scene".
The family was originally from Poland, although it is understood the child was born in Northern Ireland. The honorary consul of Poland in Northern Ireland Jerome Mullen said he had never experienced such a tragedy in his 18 years in the job.
Police have said the cause of the deaths has not been formally established and they were not seeking anyone else in relation to the deaths.

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