TRANMERE Rovers have signed Poland international defender Dariusz Kubicki on a month's loan from fellow Nationwide League Division One club Wolves.

The former Aston Villa and Sunderland right-back is a player with pace who likes to support the attack, and is expected to make his debut in the crunch relegation battle at Port Vale tonight (Wednesday).

Rovers Player-manager John Aldridge, who has been thwarted in recent attempts to sign Liverpool's Neil Ruddock and Leeds defender Richard Jobson, who favoured Second Division Southend United, at last has had some good fortune in the transfer market.

Converted for the new archive on 13 March 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.