Town to host three local players on pre-season trials, said Mark Trott who has been setting up the trials for Bermuda internationals Kyle Lightbourne, Neil Paynter and Albert Smith.

Trott was told yesterday by Scarborough manager Ray McHale that the club would be willing to provide accommodation for three Bermudians for three to four weeks. Trott said it was more likely the players would be going to Scarborough instead of Northampton Town, whom he had not heard from recently.

"I think I'm going to direct them to Scarborough, which looks a lot more concrete,'' Trott said yesterday.

Trott and two of the players, Lightbourne and Paynter, flew out to Haiti this morning for Bermuda's World Cup qualifier second leg on Sunday. Trott said he would discuss the trials further with the three players upon returning from Haiti. He also revealed that David Bascome, who had a season of professional indoor soccer in the United States, had expressed interest in going for trials in England.

The players were originally scheduled to leave for the trials on July 9 but that will depend on the dates of Bermuda's second-round qualifier with Antigua should they get past Haiti.