Ex target trials with Brighton

Despite persistent reports a switch to Glanford Park from the Cod'eads down the road a move did not come to pass as Paul Groves insisted he had an important future at Blundell Park.

However with a summer of cost cutting he is now surplus to requriements in North East Lincolnshire, and last week turned down a trial with Oxford United.

First division Brighton recently promoted youth team coach Martin Hinshelwood to manager, and bringing in Allen on a weeks trial is his first act in his new post