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The new style work experience loans are not affected by the closure of the "emergency" loan transfer window today.
Work experience deals are available to teenage Academy professionals and can be actioned anytime during the course of the season. The Bulls signed Brian "Junior" Smikle as their first ever work experience player last February, playing four times for the club and signing professional forms for West Brom in the summer, earning a squad number for this seasons Premiership campaign.
Aside from work experience loans, only goalkeepers are allowed to move if a club can prove that they have no more than one fit keeper available. This may help Graham Turner to extend his search for a backup keeper with Wayne Brown looking at a minimum of one month out.
Both of the other reserve keepers the Bulls have used this season are contracted to other sides, with Darren Knurek at Evesham and Karl Lewis at Rugby, but are regular trainers with the Bulls goalkeeping coach Bernard Day at Edgar Street as their parent clubs have no specialist goalkeeping coach.
With the "emergency" loan system having already been made a mockery of this season, especially with Championship promotion chasing side Reading today sealing the emergency loan of Aaron Brown from Tamworth - an inexperienced defender from a side three divisions below them, it is likely the work experience loan system will be similarly exploited by anyone requiring a new face.
