One piece of good news in a weather-hit weekend is that after a meeting of the Safety Advisory Group, which included South Wales Police and Cardiff Council, it was decided to let this week's loan report go ahead. They took some persuading but common sense prevailed in the end. Just don't get hit by falling debris while you're reading this or I'll never hear the last of it.
Not much to report from today's games, only Joel Colwill got a start with Ryan Wintle coming on as a sub for Millwall. A combination of injury, postponements and squad rotation kept everyone one else out of action. Luke Pearce is fit and back training with us but can't play for our under-21s or Sligo, apparently his loan spell there doesn't end until January even though their season ended last month. What's that about?
Some midweek action to catch up on though. Joel Colwill played then too in a decent week for Cheltenham. They were beating leaders Port Vale until conceding an injury-time equaliser on Tuesday and were winning 2-1 at third placed Doncaster today before conceding a 75th minute leveller. Too many draws but they're on a good run and Joel is playing a full part in that. I haven't seen him being called a number 10 but that seems to be the position he occupies there rather than the central midfielder I saw him as here. Tom Sang was playing for Port Vale in the week, 21 appearances for him so far this season after 48 last so he seems to have settled well there.
Kieron Evans played for Newport in the week as they did a reverse-Cheltenham and came from behind to snatch a late equaliser from the spot in a 2-2 draw at Wimbledon.
The movable object met the resistible force on Tuesday as Stevenage and Northampton played each other. Two sides out of form and a 0-0 draw looked like being the outcome until Eli King came on with 5 minutes to go, he soon set up Dan Kemp for the first as Stevenage ran out 2-0 winners. Stats don't tell the whole story but as Stevenage had 77% possession, led the shot count 18-1, the corner count 14-2 and had forty touches in the opposition box compared to Northampton's two, I'd say they probably just shaded it and deserved the win. Things not quite working out for Eli there so far but hopefully his assist will lead to an upturn.