CARDIFF CITY LOANS TO BOURNEMOUTH TURNS INTO FARCE

As mentioned in this blog last week, good relations between Cardiff City's boss Dave Jones and his Bournemouth counterpart Kevin Bond saw The Bluebirds agree to loan players to the stricken South Coast club in the week of City's Carling Cup victory there a week ago.

It was then reported that Cardiff were sending striker Jon Brown and defender Aaron Morris to Dorset with the pair scheduled to join The Cherries yesterday for training. It would have helped Bournemouth and been a good development experience for the pair ... except neither turned up.

Brown has been called into the Wales Under-21 squad for tomorrow's crucial game against Romania. It is currently unclear whether he will now join Bournemouth at all especially as they have now taken a young forward from Charlton.

More embarrassing was City not understanding loan rules when it came to Morris. The defender is on a Scholar contract and League rules expressly forbid any youngster being loaned to other clubs while on this type of contract.

Doh, doh, doh!