Hours after Sunderland midfielder Carl Robinson had signed on for two months with a view to joining for good in January, summer signing Jason Jarrett was heading to the south west to join Plymouth Argyle.
Robinson joins Dickson Etuhu and David Wright, who both arrived from Lancashire last week, and follows Dean Marney, Kevin Lisbie and Calum Davenport as loanees in Norfolk this term. The quick-fix solutions applied by Worthington have, predictably, failed to bring any sort of consistency to a side which has never really settled so far, although each player has played their part.
Welsh interntational Robinson should provide width on the right of midfield, a problem position since the departure of David Bentley and Mattias Jonsson in the summer, and the subsequent injury to Tottenham youngster Marney. This would allow Andy Hughes, who has skippered the side in recent weeks, to compete with Youssef Safri and Etuhu for two places in central midfield. Safri is expected to miss much of January at the African Nations' Cup with Morocco.
Jarrett, meanwhile, will hope to re-establish himself as a capable player at this level after a thoroughly indifferent start to his Norwich career. He again joins Tony Pulis, who had previously taken the midfielder on loan when manager of Stoke.
City face a clash at Coventry's new Ricoh Arena tomorrow in a reverse of the opening day fixture, rearranged because the impressive new stadium had yet to be completed.