Paul Reid Returns To Barnsley

The 26-year old, who only managed 45 minutes of play on his long-awaited return to Brunton Park, where he started his career in the late 1990s, has finally admitted defeat in his efforts to get fit for the League One play-offs. Reid, who joined Carlisle on loan on March loan deadline day, just getting in 45 minutes of first-team action at home to Southend before limping from the field at half-time with damaged ankle ligaments.

Blues manager John Ward commenting to BBC Radio Cumbria today on Reid's departure back to Oakwell :

" Paul Reid hasn't been that close actually. We hoped that he would be fit and we've looked at that in the long-term of Paul and we are not going to renew that loan. So we've allowed Paul to go back to Barnsley and get his treatment and his work there. Because with the best will in the world we all wanted him to be here, he did.

" He didn't feel though that he was going to be fit enough and able to help us enough in the terms that we wanted him. So we've decided on that, that is probably the best course of action for him. At least I know exactly where I am as well with it, we are not wondering ifs and maybes, so that is the decision made on that. "