Varney to leave Temporarily anyway. To Derby on loan until January and back to his family and friends in the area. Being a bit of a saddo, I felt quite sorry for Luke after his umpteenth open-goal miss on Tuesday night, but no one would feel sorry for me here if I kept cocking my job up, and his job is sticking the ball in the back of the net and for all of his running around he simply is not up to this level of football, or has had the coaching to bring up to the grade. Go on, now watch him score goals at will at The Rams.

With Gray still a weekly doubt due to his home issues, it must be time for Dickson or McLeod to get a run, both scored in the reserves yesterday.

Apparently tonight at 5pm is the emergency loan deadline. I never knew that, I just thought you kept on signing them until you ran out of coat hooks in the dressing room! 23-year old left back Jay McEveley might come in the other direction, a player whose career has come spiraling down since his promising career at Blackburn practically ended when he broke Djibril Cisse's leg in a gruesome tackle that got wide disdain.

UPDATE 11.15am: Varney to Derby with a view to a permanent. McEveley on a 3-month loan and Deon Burton from Sheff Wed, who has a similiar recent goalscoring record to Varney but did get his first goal of the season last week. (more)  ¶ 08:15