Ex-QPR Update

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Yeovil Official Site - Latest From The Treatment Room
Matt Rose: "In regards to an update on the previous injuries, Matty Rose is improving and was back to see his consultant on Monday and after having some further few tests has been reassured that he doesn't have to have surgery on his elbow. He will still have to wear his brace and has an outside chance of being available for tomorrows match.
Marc Bircham has continued his return to training and has been training this week with the squad, but it's a little early to look at him going back into the first team squad this weekend. However if everything goes well there is a possibility he could take part in the reserve game against Cheltenham. Yeovil

Joe Gallen Instant Promotion! -
Millwall Official Site
"There have been a couple more changes to Millwall's backroom staff with former Lions defender Scott Fitzgerald returning to The Den to become youth team coach and Joe Gallen moving up to take charge of the reserves.
Kenny Jackett explained: "My philosophy is to use all the help available. Scott comes in to assist Joe Little and his experience will be invaluable at that level.
Joe Gallen has taken the reserves for the last two games anyway, and he can also help myself and Colin West with the first team.
Richard Shaw has also been with us on the bench recently even though his primary concern is to get fit and playing again. You can't have too many good experienced people around you because anything we achieve will be as a result of a real team effort." Millwall

Ian Barraclough is a (currently non-playing) player and Co-Assistant Manager at today's hosts Scunthorpe.

Scunthorpe Official Site
Name: Ian Baraclough...Date of Birth: 04/12/1970
With appearances few and far between since September, Ian has been concentrating more on his work as co-assistant manager. However, as injuries and suspensions take their toll over the course of the season, his experience will prove vital. An influential figure on and off the field.
Considering he arrived at Glanford Park on a free transfer, Ian Baraclough has proved an inspired addition to the Scunthorpe squad by ex-manager Brian Laws. His signing has been said by many to be one of the major factors for the club's promotion to League One in 2004/05.
Eyebrows were raised in the summer of 2004 when Laws signed Baraclough, widely known as an experienced left-back, to play in central midfield. But it soon proved another inspired bit of business. Baraclough led from the front and those around him followed, showing consistency and putting in a large number of all-action displays. With his tough-tackling and immaculate passing he soon became one of the most important members of the team and a firm fan favourite.
He took the number eleven shirt vacated by Alex Calvo-Garcia's departure that summer and, looking back at how he has done at Glanford Park, few people can begrudge Baraclough that. He is one of the first names on the team sheet when fit, everything you need in a central midfielder.
He also has a knack of scoring important goals. The best one, arguably, the thunderbolt that he bulleted in against his former club Mansfield in September 2004.
Though he scored the goal that put United in their highest league position for forty years, his strike against Southend sent United to the top of League One in August of last season.
His match fitness has defied his years. A problem during 2005/06 was that he never had a consistent midfield partner but during the following title-winning campaign, Matt Sparrow made a real impression in the centre and formed a partnership with Baraclough, which added a much needed spark to the team's play.
Baraclough began his career back in 1992 with Lincoln and after two seasons and having notched up over 70 appearances with the Imps he moved on to Mansfield Town.
It was after a successful spell there that he moved onto Notts County, it was to be his first spell at the club. He stayed with the Magpies for nearly three seasons before moving on to QPR in a cut-price £75k deal in March 1998 - during Notts County's title-winning season. But the then left full-back re-signed for the Magpies from the Londoners a little over two seasons later and spent the next four years at Meadow Lane, fighting it out in what was then the Second Division.
An articulate and thoughtful man, whose intelligence spills out onto the pitch, Baraclough is a major player at Glanford Park and it is excellent to see people with the experience of he and Andy Crosby getting the chance to assist boss Nigel Adkins, a challenge that Bara has certainly enjoyed the responsibility of.
Now in his 37th year, can the co-assistant manager keep up his excellent form and help the Iron stay in the Championship? Scunthorpe

Nikki Bull on Aldershot's Season - Aldershot Official Site
'There have been a lot of games this season where teams have started better than us but they haven't taken their chances. The reason that we are currently top of the league is because our ration of converting chances is frightening and that is such an important part of our game.
"I hope that the message that we are sending out is that we are showing what team spirit and good organisation can do. There are people that keep thinking that Aldershot are going to slip up soon but we keep winning. There are teams with bigger budgets, bigger playing staff and bigger expectations and the pressure is back on them because it is up to these clubs to catch us. Nobody expected us to be where we are but what an incentive we have to stay there". Nikki Bull - Aldershot