I went to a Loan Watch office reunion in the week. Not my kind of thing usually but Joe from accounts still owed me a fiver and I didn't want to miss the chance of getting it back. It was a decent night to be honest. It started off slowly but someone broke the ice by reminiscing about Jazzi Barnum-Bobb's loan spell at Newport, then Stuart O'Keefe's stint at MK Dons came up and before long we were all chatting away, dewy-eyed with nostalgia. We've arranged to meet up again when the Belgian relegation play-offs come round, if anyone knows of a local pub that shows them live then let me know.

We may as well start in Belgium for this week's round-up as Ryotaro Tsunoda completed 90 minutes for Kortrijk yesterday in their 4-2 defeat at relegation rivals STVV. I'm not sure how 'It's good to get some minutes in my legs but we lost a six-pointer' translates to Japanese but hopefully he's got it ready for when he phones home. He got 75 minutes in last week too so, finally, there are some encouraging signs for him. We'll have to wait and see how things unfold for him here but he deserves a good crack at pre-season to try and establish himself, assuming that's the plan for both him and us.

With six players on loan at football league clubs currently there should be no shortage of action to reflect on but this is far from the case again. Kion Etete and Kieron Evans are still injured, Ryan Wintle was an unused sub yesterday and Michael Reindorf didn't make the Bristol Rovers squad (as far as I can make out he made way for a couple of players returning from injury). Eli King and Joel Colwill both came on late for their sides, Joel missed a late chance to win it for Exeter against Northampton but it was another poor performance from them as they slip towards the bottom four.

It's not much better at non-league level. Baylin Johnson has dropped out of the Maidstone squad and Jake Dennis didn't get off the bench for Oldham. Jake dodged a bit of a bullet there though as Oldham lost 3-0 at home to a rampant Barnet side who are showing no sign of letting up as they push for the National League title. Malachi Fagan-Walcott's York are keeping up as much pressure as they can, they won 1-0 at Hartlepool yesterday despite coming up against Gary Madine.

For a young lad, Joe Thomas is having to do a lot of heavy lifting in these round-ups. The pressure was on him last week to be the only one of our loaned out players to get 90 minutes in but his game on Monday got called off due to a waterlogged pitch. It never rains but it pours - in Frome at least. Better luck yesterday though as Yate Town pulled in a crowd of 527 for their game with Shaftesbury. Joe got off to a bad start, delaying an early clearance and letting their striker nip in to gift the visitors an early lead, but he made up for it with some good second half saves as Yate went on to win 3-1. They're still nine points clear and go to second placed Evesham next Saturday.