Loan duo staying to complete Rovers mission

BLACKPOOL striker Jason Euell and Leicester City midfielder Franck Moussa have extended their loan spells at Doncaster Rovers.

Jamaican international Euell will stay at the Keepmoat Stadium until the end of the season while Belgian-born Moussa, 21, is staying for another month.

Both players were signed by manager Sean O’Driscoll during a crippling injury crisis last month that ruled out 13 first-team players.

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Although that situation has now improved, Euell is still deputising for Billy Sharp – who has been ruled out for the rest of the season following a groin operation – and Moussa is playing in the absence of injured Martin Woods and Paul Keegan.

“I came here to get games and to help the team get the points it needed,” said Euell. “We want to know that we are secure and safe in this league for next season.”

Rovers, whose next game is a trip to Bristol City on April 2, are currently nine points clear of the Championship relegation zone but have won only two of their last 16 league games.

Midfielder Keegan, meanwhile, is sweating over his future at the Keepmoat Stadium.

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Keegan, who started his career at Leeds United, will not play again this season due to knee surgery but has played 10 games since arriving in January from Irish club Bohemians.

His current deal expires in the summer and Keegan said: “Obviously I would have liked to have played more, and proved myself even more, but I will have to wait and see what happens.

“I’d certainly like to stay on. It’s a great club and it is a place that I want to be.”

Former Rotherham United pair Rob Scott and Paul Hurst have quit Boston United to become the new joint managers of Grimsby Town.

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Scott, 37, and Hurst, 36, have already made an impressive start to life in joint management leading both Ilkeston Town and Boston to promotion in the last two seasons.

Now the pair are seeking to lead the Mariners – who still have an outside chance of play-off qualification – back to the Football League.

The Mariners have been without a manager since sacking Neil Woods a month ago.

Barnsley midfielder Jacob Butterfield has been fined by the club after being caught drink-driving in the town earlier this month.

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Butterfield, 20, was also fined £750 and banned from driving for a year by local magistrates.

Coventry City have rejected reports that former Sheffield United manager Kevin Blackwell is in the frame for the vacant manager’s job at the Ricoh Arena.