Update on Andy Butler's future with Doncaster Rovers

Darren Moore says former club captain Andy Butler will continue to have the opportunity to earn a contract with Doncaster Rovers.
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Butler has been on trial with Rovers for almost a fortnight and travelled with the rest of the squad for Saturday’s season opener against Blackburn Rovers.

Moore says the future of the 36-year-old has not yet been finalised but confirmed Butler will be back in training with Rovers in the coming week.

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“Butts has come to get a flavour of where we’re at,” Moore told the Free Press.

“He’s been training with us and he’ll train again this week. We’ll get a game in and see him in that.

“He just wanted to come to get a matchday experience and I think it’s great for him to get that.

“When players come in on trial I think it’s unfair when you only give them a couple of days. Let them come in and settle down, blow off the cobwebs and that’s what we’ve done with him.”

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Butler was part of a second wave of trialists invited in by Moore for pre-season.

Of those, former Southampton forward Marcus Barnes has been let go while Moore is considering allowing the other - a young forward who was on the books of a League One side last season - to come back in for training this week.

Rovers will take on Manchester United U21s in a friendly this week as the continue to prepare for the start of the League One campaign.

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