With the expiration of his contract due in the summer it looks as though Kevin McNaughton has run the ball out of play for the last time as a City player having suffered a broken leg in Bolton's draw with Reading on Tuesday. An unfortunate end to a messy final year or so for him here.A great servant of the club (and one of only two players to feature in all four of our recent Wembley appearances), hopefully he'll be able to make a half-time appearance before the season's end to say his goodbyes. Adam Le Fondre set up the Bolton goal in that game but Joe Lewis is being left out by Blackpool as they start to plan ahead for next season.
A washout in League 1. I presume Declan John signed too late to make the Barnsley squad but they've now won 5 in a row (with 5 clean sheets) so he may have to wait for his chance anyway. Rhys Healey didn't make the Colchester squad having returned from illness last week and Ben Nugent seems out of favour at Yeovil. Tommy O'Sullivan returned to the club last week having failed to break into a winning Port Vale side but an excellent performance for our u-21s suggests that a breakthrough at league level isn't far away.
In League 2,another good week for Deji Oshilaja with a clean sheet on Tuesday being followed by his first goal for AFC Wimbledon yesterday in a 2-1 win. David Tutonda continues to fill the left back role for Newport but a disappointing week sees them overtaken in the play-off race by Stevenage, for whom Danny Johnson had his loan extended for another month despite struggling for pitch time.
On to the players who are now in strange,far away places. Filip Kiss come on late again for Ross County as they won their fourth game in a row but Javi Guerra and Etien Velikonja didn't make their squads. Not sure if this was form or fitness related (the same goes for Daehli at Freiburg by the way,has anyone got any idea what's happening there?). KTC's St Etienne won 2-0,he's now made nearly 30 appearances for them this season.
Among our ex-players, Eikrem and Berget scored again for Malmo in a 4-0 cup win, Luke Coulson scored in a 3-1 win for Oxford City and Roger Johnson had a comfortable stroll in the sunshine as Charlton won their game 2-1.