Malachi Fagan-Walcott is fit and working again, walking down the road in the sun, feeling like Alan Minter and eating eight sheets of blotting paper. Forget that, sorry, I got a bit carried away there but it has been an eventful week for him. He came back for York's game with top of the table Barnet on Tuesday and helped them overturn an early deficit to win 3-1. Saturday's game was a trip to Halifax with a following of 2,000 fans to back them but, again, they went behind early. Fagan-Walcott had a great chance to equalise in the second half but dragged it wide and injury time came round with York still 1-0 down. Then Malachi did pop up with the equaliser and five minutes later Ollie Pearce hit a winner to send York to the top of the table.
Another goal scorer this week was Luke Pearce for Sligo in their 2-2 draw with Galway. A close range header for Luke and he seems to be finishing the season well there. Only one game left so he'll be back here before long. Obviously one issue is how will he pick up pitch time with Michael Reindorf on such good form for the under-21s? Answers on a postcard to Omer Riza c/o Cardiff City.
The goals from those two stand out in an otherwise barren week for our loaned out players. Eli King was dropped for Stevenage's midweek game but brought back in for the trip to Rotherham where it was 0-0 when Eli was subbed after 65 minutes but quickly turned into a 2-0 defeat after. That'll learn 'em. Kieron Evans came off the bench twice this week but, while Joel Colwill started the midweek game for Cheltenham, he went all the way to Carlisle for a minute off the bench yesterday in a 1-0 win.
Joel's minute was more than a number of other players though. Josh Beecher and Ewan Griffiths are learning the importance of keeping your place in the team as they missed out this weekend. Not their fault though, Ewan lost his place at Plymouth Parkway a while back due to an international call-up and Josh missed Barry's League Cup win over Penybont in midweek as he was cup-tied after playing for us in an earlier round. He was on the bench yesterday as Barry won 2-1 at Flint with the first being scored by Josh Yorwerth (a header from a corner if you hadn't guessed). No sign of Raheem Conte again this week and Roko Simic didn't get off the bench for Kortrijk in their 1-0 win.
Last, but not least, Ryan Wintle got his first start for Millwall in a 1-0 win at Swansea yesterday. It was a late winner and as Swansea had 72% possession, had 17 shots to Millwall's 6, 10 corners to 6, 86% pass accuracy to 57% and 480 passes to 184 it would seem that Swansea were a bit unlucky. Never mind.