Sheffield Wednesday boss Brian Laws has turned down the opportunity to sign former Reading defender John Halls. Halls played the full 90 minutes as Wednesday's reserve team which crushed Shrewsbury's reserves 6-2 .
The Owls boss watched the clash to look over the defender, but decided against giving him a deal and will look elsewhere to strengthen his backline.
In the same game Tony McMahon impressed at right-back after signing on a month's loan deal from Middlesbrough and Laws could well look to extend it beyond a month should Simek and Hinds fail to return from injury in time.
