Ian Coke is licking his lips over what promises to be a lethal strike partnership with Angelo Simmons at new club Dandy Town Hornets next season.

The 28-year-old striker was reunited with former his Boulevard team-mate after joining Town from the Blazers during the summer transfer window.

“It is going to be very exciting playing with Angelo again,” Coke, last season’s Premier Division MVP, said. “He has speed, so he can keep up with my pace as well and I’m not just running solo.”

The move has brought together last season’s joint leading Premier Division goalscorers.

“Last season we were both joint winners of the Golden Boot and the season before he stole the show in the last game of the season, so we have pretty much run a tight race,” Coke said. “We are almost like the same player and playing with him is going to be awesome.”

Coke has made a seamless transition to his new surroundings at St John’s Field.

“They are making me a part of the furniture already,” the striker added. “It’s a close-knit community, sort of like Boulevard, and that’s what I was looking for.”

Coke admitted that leaving Boulevard was not an easy decision to make, but opted to do so in search of a fresh challenge.

“I just felt the need for a new challenge and they needed a striker and actually approached me,” he said. “I gave it until the last day of the transfer window to hand in my request; it was a difficult decision to make. But to pick Dandy Town I just felt was the best decision.

“After not winning anything last season, these guys are coming back with a bit of fire in them and I also have some fire in me.

“Scoring goals is what I do, no matter what team I am playing with, and I am really looking forward to the new challenge.”

Coke has also thrived on the international stage lately, bagging a brace in Bermuda’s 2-1 win away to Grenada in an international friendly in June.

“When it comes to scoring goals for Bermuda, it does not get any bigger than that,” he said.

Coke’s superb double marked a successful return to the national team set-up after a hiatus.

“Due to the quality we had in the past I was never given a full-time spot,” he said. “I was always an on-call guy or late substitute.

“I had to wait behind guys like Kwame Steede, Domico Coddington, Antwan Russell, Damon Ming and Angelo.

“I just had to wait my turn and then do my best when the opportunity presented itself.”