Two former Clarets on the move

Last updated : 21 November 2002 By Tony Scholes

David Reeves - during a game for Chesterfield this season
Earlier in the season Oldham’s David Reeves was loaned to his former club Chesterfield. In fact the loan was completed in time for the second Saturday of the season. Reeves has never wanted to leave Chesterfield in the first place but the decision was a financial one but he was hoping to make his return a permanent one.

However he has been less than successful and in 18 league and cup appearances he has scored just the one goal in a 1-0 home win against Blackpool. His three months loan is at an end and he has been returned to Oldham.

Whilst away from Boundary Park the club released a list of players who they were looking to get rid of with immediate effect and they were hoping to be able to come to an agreement to terminate their contracts.

Reeves was one of these players and he has now walked straight back into this situation, returning to a club where is no longer wanted. This could spell the end of a career for Reeves who celebrated his 35th birthday yesterday.

It is a career that started at Sheffield Wednesday, although his league debut was during a loan spell at Scunthorpe, and it is a career that has brought him well over 200 league and cup goals.

Another player on the move is Boston United’s Mark Monington, he has today joined Nationwide Conference club Halifax Town on loan.

Monington joined Boston in the summer of 2001 having been released by Rochdale and was captain as they manufactured themselves a place in the Football League last season playing in 27 of their league games.

There has been no place for the 32 year-old defender though this season and he has made just the one appearance in a 3-1 home defeat against Cambridge United.

He has joined Halifax initially for one month where he will partner former Tranmere and Oldham player Shaun Garnett in a very experienced defensive pairing.