Teenager Louis Horne has pledged his immediate future to the club after signing a one-year deal. The 19-year-old defender has been at the club since he was 9 and will be hopeful of more first-team appearances during the 2010/11 season. Horne, whose only appearance so far was from the bench against Cheltenham in January, is the eighth player to sign a new deal at Valley Parade since the end of the season.

Also at 9.30 tomorrow morning the draw for the 1st round of the Carling Cup will take place. The highest placed clubs in last season’s league tables, Burnley and Hull City, have been given a bye to Round 2 and remaining 70 Football League clubs go into the draw. The next 35 clubs in last season’s tables (down to Brighton & Hove Albion who finished in 13th place in League 1) will be seeded and drawn against the remaining 35 clubs. As usual the Round 1 draw will be split into North and South sections with 15 northern pairings and 20 southern ones.