YORK City boss Jackie McNamara reckons his part-time converts will bring more hunger to the Bootham Crescent ranks next season.

McNamara felt too many of last term's relegated players treated football as a profession, rather than a passion, but believes the opportunity to prove themselves in the full-time game will bring out the best in summer signings Jack Higgins, Josh Robinson, Matty Fry, Kaine Felix, Daniel Nti and Richard Brodie, who were all playing at semi-pro level during 2015/16.

New quartet Higgins, Robinson, Felix and Nti will be receiving their first chances as professionals after arriving from Stalybridge Celtic, Crusaders, Boston and Worcester respectively.

Fry and Brodie, meanwhile, are returning to the full-time ranks after ending last season at National League play-off semi-finalists Braintree and Stockport respectively.

On the six players' determination to succeed, McNamara said: "They are coming here wanting to make a real go of it in full-time football and enhance their careers. This is not just a job to them, it's a passion.

"If you look at Matty Fry, he was part of a defence that kept 22 clean sheets last season, playing for a part-time side that got to the play-offs and he wants to better that. Somebody like Jack Higgins has also shown hunger by packing in his job as a PE teacher to sign for us."

Along with Fry's 45 outings for Braintree, Eastleigh and Dartford at National League level, fellow new faces Richard Brodie (317), Yan Klukowski (159), Simon Heslop (145) and Clovis Kamdjo (108) have amassed more than 700 appearances between them in the division that City will be plying their trade in next term.

All five have also spent time in the Football League, but McNamara reckons that experience of non-League football's highest echelon will prove invaluable.

"They're not going into something they don't know," he reasoned.

Elsewhere, National League rivals Aldershot have signed striker Shamir Fenelon from Crawley.