Antipodean Bantams

Former Bantams goalkeeper Paul Henderson has joined the Newcastle Jets on a short-term deal until August 27.

Henderson has impressed the Jets’ coaching staff during a fortnight’s trial to sign up for the A-League club as an injury replacement for the injured Neil Young.

“Certainly bringing in a goalkeeper of Paul’s experience is a fantastic thing for the club,” Jets CEO John Tsatsimas said.

“It’s not always easy to source high-quality recruits as injury replacement players just prior to the season starting, but we’ve been very fortunate to secure Paul’s services in Neil’s absence.”

There have been rumours for some time now that Paul Henderson had been released by cash-strapped North Queensland Fury, and that has now been confirmed with the club announcing their squad currently has just 10 players – with the former Bantams goalkeeper not among them.

Digging further, we have in fact discovered that earlier this month he signed a ‘short-term contract’ with NSW Premier League side Sydney Olympic.