Stoke boss Tony Pulis says it’s important that Town target Danny Collins plays games at this point in his career. The 31-year-old, who this morning’s national newspapers again link with a loan move to the Blues, is amongst a number of players left out the Potters’ 25-man Premier League squad and made available for loan.

Pulis says he wants those players to get games under their belts over the next few months: "These are lads who have not been playing enough recently and so we want to get them out and playing football until Christmas. It's important for Danny Collins to be playing at his age and because he's in the Welsh squad.”

Collins, who has won 17 full caps, is in the Welsh squad for tonight’s Euro 2012 qualifier against England at Wembley and is likely to be on the bench, as he was throughout Saturday’s 2-1 victory over Montenegro. Nottingham Forest have also been linked with the former Sunderland man this summer, while Portsmouth are also believed to be in the hunt.

One player Pulis isn’t allowing to leave the Britannia Stadium, at least in the short term, is young defender Ryan Shotton, another player the Blues and other Championship clubs enquired about earlier in the summer: "Hopefully he'll get some games in the Carling Cup, then we'll see how much football time he gets when we review him at Christmas."

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itfcjc added 11:22 - Sep 6 Sign him up Jewell
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DiamondGezzer added 12:02 - Sep 6 Ryan Shotton wouldn't be the worst player in the world to be able to sign in the future.
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brian_a_mul added 12:44 - Sep 6 Shotton was used in Def and up front for stoke so far but with the players they have just brought in (Crouch, Jerome and Upson) will really limit his appearances from now on. Higgingbottom is returning from injury soon to add further competition. If Collins does come to Town and does well he will spread the good word. Walters is already there so Im sure he is telling the players all they need to know (I hope thats a good thing!). Plus Andrews will be partnering Whelan (Stoke) for Ireland tonight, lets hope he too can put in a few good words about our club!

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DiamondGezzer added 14:20 - Sep 6 Brian a mul :- Good call. Maybe Shotton, sooner rather than later.
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jas0999 added 18:51 - Sep 6 Why bother with more loans? Three is surely enough? Why are we not building a team? Loans and 30 year + old has beens is surely not the answer. Cresswell was a good buy, along with Chopra but other than that back to square one in the Summer - where if we rely on another 3 loans we could be in division one.
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churchmans added 19:21 - Sep 6 jas0999 the transfer window is closed! were getting him in on loan hopefully and if hes any good we sign him up in january! what has age got to do with us going up we aint got time to build a team we want to go up this phucking season. stop criticising we had a knightmare start i wont worry till november! by then i would like to think we are in the top six by then at worst 6points off a playoff place and if none of that happen then i will agree with you that we are back to sqaure one

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