Craig Easton: now looking for a new club
It started with a tweet.
Last week our hard working Echo journalist Chris Philips told us: 'Torquay United now favourites to sign Craig Easton, if he leaves Blues.'
Well, it looks as if the favourites have fallen at an early stage of the race, however, it still may work out well for our former club captain Craig Easton as another name has been thrown in the ring for the hard working midfielder and earn him an instant promotion, League One midlands side Walsall.
Again, we look to Phillips, who tweeted this time: 'Walsall now also interested in Craig Easton, apparently.'
And this was in answer to a follower reminding Chris the Gulls were not going to snatch our now Scottish born free agent.
So any reason to feel confident he's got it right this time?
Nothing official as ever with these summer rumours but 'the saddlers' in Walsall fansite www.walsall.web-fans.com wrote Sunday: 'After a predictably slow start in the transfer market for Walsall, we signed as many as four in the space of a week namely Mat Sadler, Kevan Hurst, Ryan Jarvis and Claude Gnakpa. Things are beginning to look up and we may actually be able to field a side against Greenock Morton come July 13th. Smith has identified the areas that require strengthening, indicating that central midfield needs a few more bodies and has even suggested that the club may look at bringing in a couple of trialists. Loanees from last season, Marc-Antoine Gbarssin and Marc Laird are likely to join the club whilst we are believed to be in talks with Leyton Orient’s Adam Chambers'
OK, not a lot then, but hey, the sun's out and it's still over four weeks to the league kick-off, enjoy!
He accepts he's off: www.southendunited-mad.co.uk
The armband passes on: www.southendunited-mad.co.uk
The Torquay link: www.southendunited-mad.co.uk
Even without ex-Captain Craig, still confident?: www.southendunited-mad.co.uk/interactive/voting_polls.asp
The Easton Files
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Craig Easton | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Bellshill, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Central midfield | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Southend United | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995-1996 | Dundee United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1996-2004 | Dundee United | 221 | (12) |
| 2004-2005 | Livingston | 30 | (3) |
| 2005-2007 | Leyton Orient | 71 | (5) |
| 2007-2010 | Swindon Town | 75 | (8) |
| 2010- | Southend United | 31 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998-2001 | Scotland U21 | 22 | (2) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:01, 19 March 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:28, 26 March 2010 (UTC) |
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(Player info supplied by Wikipedia, for the full article go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Easton)