Only the loanee Dean Kiely kept a clean sheet in his comeback game tonight in a reserve outing at Fulham. According to reports it was a game of very little goalmouth action with the eventual result ending 0-0. (Report)

After a few reserve run-outs it will be interesting to see if Curbs puts Deano back in over Andersen and if not how long before the Irishman allows himself, at almost 35, to be a 2nd choice 'keeper. So far, despite the return of Sorondo, Spector and El Karkouri, Curbs has not tinkered with a back five that has done us so well early in the season.

Other player news today was that young centre-half Osei Sankofa joined League One side Bristol City on a month's loan. In fact he went straight into the City side tonight and played the whole 90 minutes in their 3-0 win over Barnsley - the 2nd consecutive win for City's new manager Gary Johnson who joined from Yeovil only last Friday.

The question is whether Curbs has sent him out on loan with a view to offload him, in the same vein as Neil McCafferty or as an incentive to come back more experienced and hungry for a first team place.

Regular visitors to reserve matches suggest that Sankofa, despite a bad injury, has a future at the club, but he is way down the defender pecking order at present. Gary Johnson seems to like him though: "Osei's an intelligent footballer capable of handling a situation." (more)

Meanwhile our other loanee's were on the radar today. It is thought that Francis Jeffers may stand in for the tasty sounding Nacho Novo in Rangers Champions' League game at Inter's San Siro tomorrow night. Sounds impressive until you realise that the game will be played behind closed doors - a punishment for the poor behavour of Inter's fans last season.

A run of 5 wins on the spin for Accrington Stanley has seen them keen to keep young goalie Darren Randolph for another month. "I'm very happy to sign for another month, I'm getting games week-in, week-out which is exactly what I wanted. I've been pleased with my form."

Unfortunately that run came to an end tonight when Stanley lost away at Morecambe.

Kevin Lisbie started on the bench tonight for Norwich against Hull City but came on at half-time for Dean Ashton. I don't know what Canaries fan's make of him but this report tells of at least three gilt-edged chances that he missed and there were others in the weekend's defeat to Reading. A familiar story of him racing past defenders but unable to finish - there's bad luck and there's Kevin Lisbie.  ¶ 21:07