Born in July 1987 Joyce joined Wigan as a trainee in the summer of 2004 and now links up with the Cumbrians who have taken over his scholarship contract with Wigan until the end of the current campaign. The youngster will then move on to a twelve month professional contract during the summer which will take him to the end of June 2007 on the Carlisle books.
Joyce apparently impressed in his central midfield role during the two big wins for the reserve team this week, 6-0 at Rochdale on Monday night and 5-2 at Wrexham on Wednesday afternoon. The ex-Latic featured as a trialist in those games along with Ben Christensen, a right-back from Sunderland, and Nicky Platt, another central midfielder, this time from Burnley. Any move for those two players now looks unlikely, and any further transfer movement in and out of Brunton Park is also extremely unlikely with the loan transfer window about to close, as I type, in sixty minutes time.