Bonner is the latest target for Brian Talbot

Last updated : 12 May 2004 By Dave Moore
Mark Bonner (pictured) could soon be an Athletic player. Brian Talbot is hoping to make the player, who was recruited from Cardiff on the transfer deadline day, a permanent fixture at Boundary Park. Bonner is only 29 but has played over 300 league games in his short/long career.


In another story Chris Killen has started only 22 games in two years at Boundary Park and Talbot was critical of the injury prone player when he said, β€œHe was due to go away with New Zealand in a few weeks, but we have forwarded his medical records and pulled him out. Chris will be under a fitness programme during the summer because we need to get him on a football pitch next season. He is too expensive to be unavailable so often and has been a big disappointment since coming to the club.”