Who is he?
A sprightly forward, who can play up front or wide on the
right.
Where’s he come from?
Woking, where he scored 11 goals in 27 appearances during a
title winning campaign that saw the Cards promoted to the Blue Square Premier.
And before that?
Cowan-Hall started his senior career at Portsmouth, where he
made a solitary appearance in a pre-season friendly. A couple of loan spells at
Grimsby were blighted by illness and injury, before Pompey got rid after their
relegation from the Premier League in 2010.
Trials at several Championship and League One clubs followed, before a
short-term deal with Scunthorpe resulted in a substitute appearance in a
Championship fixture against Watford. The Iron then sent our man out on loan at
Rushden and Diamonds, his boyhood club, where he scored one goal in three
appearances. With no new deal forthcoming from Glanford Park, Paris opted to
drop down the leagues and sign a one-year contract with Woking, then of the
Conference South.
Any fee involved?
No transfer fee, although compensation is owed to Woking due
to his age (21).
What’s he like?
Quick, but also good in the air for a player of his size
(5ft 8). At Woking Cowan-Hall played
predominantly as a centre-forward, but Carl Fletcher is likely to deploy him on
either side of a front three.
