Lewes boss Tim O’Shea has praised the impact of his midweek matchwinner.

Albion loanee Grant Hall plays his last game for the Rooks tomorrow as they chase a third successive win at home to mid-table Havant and Waterlooville.

Hall’s one-month loan stint ends this weekend and the Seagulls will not allow Lewes to extend it.

Fellow Albion loan player George Barker went back this week with Gus Poyet keen to assess the progress of his young back-up players. Lewes have lost just one of the four games Hall has featured in and the 19-year-old scored the winner with a spectacular overhead kick as the Rooks beat fellow strugglers Hampton and Richmond on Tuesday.

O’Shea said: “Grant goes back after this weekend. Brighton are keen to have a look at these young players whose futures will be decided by Gus Poyet.

“They have got three or four games behind closed doors to have a look at them and I have to respect that.

“Grant has done ever so well. He wasn’t brought in as a right-back but with the injuries we have picked up along the way he has gone in there and has been fantastic.

“I feel he has a great future in the game.

“For a centre-back to score a goal like that on Tuesday was great. Gary Noel tried it in the build-up to the goal and there was a bit of ribbing in the changing afterwards that it took a centre-back to show a striker how to do it.

“I think Grant has every chance of making it in the pro game. He is a good size, he is quick across the ground and he is competent in two positions, which he has shown with us and is a good attribute to have these days.”

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