HAVING made a number of signings in recent months, Darlington manager Tommy Wright does not plan to make any further additions for the remainder of the season.

Eight players have signed since Wright arrived in October, six of them in the starting line-up for last Saturday’s win at Leamington.

The squad has undergone something of a mid-season makeover with a handful of players leaving, the sales of Adam Bartlett, David Ferguson, Mark Beck and Nathan Cartman all bringing in transfer fees, and Ed Wilczynski has gone too, while Kevin Burgess and Liam Marrs have left on loan.

While not ruling out further additions to his team, Wright said: “If we bring players in now it’ll be because they’re long-term targets that have become available sooner than we thought.

“If someone we have on the list for the summer became available now we’d probably do it, but aside from that I don’t think we’ll change much.”

There has been an exit of sorts this week, Burgess’ local to Whitby Town extended until the end of the season.

Wright said: “I could easily have brought back Kev, it would’ve strengthened the squad, but he’s happy where he is. He is playing week in, week out and I don’t think he’d be happy here on the bench being cover.”

Centre-back Burgess played one of his final Darlington games in the away match against Blyth Spartans, who are Saturday’s opposition at Blackwell Meadows, when the defender came off the bench at half-time as a replacement for the injured Dom Collins.

Quakers were winning 1-0, but lost 3-1, and Wright said: “Kev came back in having not played for a while, and ultimately that was why he went out on loan, because he wasn’t up to the fitness levels required.

“Kev got caught cold, it was as simple as that, but there were other reasons we lost that game.

“They got in behind us that day and we know their threats. They’ve got a lot of pace in forward areas, and if we can quieten them you can limit what they’re about.”

Jack Vaulks, another centre-back, is now back with Darlington having returned from a loan spell with Sunderland RCA, however, he did not play as often as Quakers anticipated.

He travelled with the squad to Leamington, though was not named among the substitutes, and Wright added: “His loan has finished. He needed experience from it but I don’t think it worked out.

“I don’t think he learned a lot and I think he’s probably gone backwards in terms of his fitness, so he will probably stay with us for the rest of the season and work with Alan White.”