In November 2019, the club was bought by former Billericay Town owner Glenn Tamplin, who immediately sacked the existing manager Paul Martin and appointed himself in his place. Under Tamplin Romford had a difficult time, largely because of the unavailability of the waterlogged Brentwood pitch which they were unable to use after Tamplin's first match, and a huge turnover of players but eventually recovered enough ground to move off the bottom of the table in March just as the season was brought to a premature end by the coronavirus pandemic. The following season Romford moved on again to Barking but with coronavirus cases increasing again the season was suspended in November with Boro in mid-table, and shortly after it was eventually curtailed in February Tamplin announced he was leaving the Club, but his assistants Christos Mead and Derek Duncan would remain in charge of the team.