A quick(ish) run through of how our loaned out players fared this week.
As two played each other yesterday, I'll start there. York's run of clean sheets was ended by a superb Raheem Conte cross being nodded in to give Woking the lead before York equalised with a penalty in the 81st minute. While Conte also had a penalty appeal turned down it wasn't Malachi Fagan-Walcott's best 90 minutes but the 1-1 draw means York are unbeaten in eight.
With Wales u-21's big game coming up on Friday, Joel Colwill and Eli King don't seem to be quite firing on all cylinders but they both started two games this week. It's quite common for loan spells to start well and then tail off a little as the packed schedule starts to take its toll and that seems to be happening a bit with Joel at the moment. A good midweek win for Cheltenham was followed by a defeat at Barrow yesterday and Joel was subbed late on. Eli King has been back in the Stevenage team that had the same home win - away loss run as Cheltenham and he was subbed both times, after an hour yesterday. There was criticism of him yesterday that most of his passes were sideways or backwards. No need to try and impress Bulut with that stuff now Eli, he's gone.
Sub appearances for Josh Beecher at Barry and Ryan Wintle at Millwall this weekend but no pitch time for Roko Simic at Kortrijk. He's only made three appearances so far and has played around two hours football so the claims by some on here that he was a Championship-ready striker seem a bit wide of the mark at this stage. No game for Luke Pearce's Sligo this week, they play a friendly against Celtic on Wednesday.
Cup fever has hit Plymouth Parkway as 253 turned up to watch their 3-2 win over Banbury in the FA Trophy yesterday. Next week sees them try and make the first round proper of the FA Cup with a home game against Worthing. All good experience for Ewan Griffiths, he's there at the right time. If anyone is planning on watching Plymouth Parkway, they play at Bolitho Park. If you want to make a day of it you can have your ear wax removed at the Honicknowle Pharmacy, it's only a 28 minute walk from the ground.
Last but not least this week, Kieron Evans has run into a bit of form for Newport. An assist in the 3-1 win over Salford in the week capped an excellent performance as he formed a good partnership with full back Cameron Evans up the right flank. Next up for Newport is a televised game on Sky at Bradford tomorrow night.