Hartlepool United defender completes National League North loan move
Hartlepool United have confirmed a young defender has joined National League North club Spennymoor Town.
Hartlepool United have agreed to allow a second young player to spend the rest of the season with Spennymoor Town after defender Louis Stephenson completed a loan move to the National League North club.
Stephenson made his Moors debut with just over quarter of an hour remaining as the Moors eased to a 4-1 home win against Curzon Ashton on Tuesday night to move with seven points of the play-off places and they hold as many as two games in-hand on the clubs sitting above them in the table.
Speaking after Stephenson agreed to spend the rest of the season at the Brewery Field, former Pools midfielder and current joint-interim manager Matty Dolan told the Moors website: “Louis is an aggressive, front foot defender. He played a good number of games for Hartlepool last season, and he’s also done well with Buxton so comes with a good pedigree and a knowledge of the level. We’ve been keen to try and improve the squad for the run-in because we know we’ve got a heavy schedule and bringing Louis in will definitely strengthen us.”
Another Pools youngster made his debut in the win as Kian Foreman came off the bench to replace Cam Salkeld after he joined the National League North club on loan last week after a successful spell with Northern Premier League promotion candidates Hebburn Town.
The Pools youngsters will hope to earn more game-time when Miller and Dolan’s side host Alfreton Town on Saturday - and the latter has challenged the Moors players to ensure they enjoyed the pressures of the final run-in to the end of the season.
When asked what his side had to do between now and the end of the season, Dolan told Moors TV: “We’ve got to enjoy it first and foremost. We have got to perform like that and everything else will fall into place. We got back-to-back wins now and we go into Saturday seven points from the play-offs with a couple of games in hand so why not? Why not? I think that’s the main message. We want to do it in the right way. We want to enjoy it, we want to perform like that. It’s not going to be as plain sailing as that, I don’t think. We are under no illusions that it’s going to be plain sailing like that. We will enjoy this evening and straight on to Saturday and see where it takes us.”
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