Position: right-back, central defender, midfielder or striker.

Lincoln City career: 97+(9) appearances and 9 goals between July 2005 - June 2008.

Clubs: Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City, Wrexham and Macclesfield Town.

A large number of players departed Lincoln City during summer 2005 thereby leaving a vast void, especially in midfield. The signing of Nat Brown helped to fill those gaps in the squad, as he can play at right-back, centre-half, midfield or as a striker.

Brown began his career as a trainee at Huddersfield in August 1998 but struggled to become a first team regular. His best season occurred in 2003/04 when Huddersfield won promotion from Division 3 (League Two). However, he only started 7 League One games during the 2004/05 season.

Brown, despite having a year on his contract remaining at Huddersfield, was given permission by Huddersfield Town manager Peter Jackson to leave the club. In June 2005, it appeared that he would join Shrewsbury on a two-year contract but the transfer fell through. Instead, he has signed for Lincoln on a two-year contract.

Jackson spoke of Brown's impending departure by saying: "It's a shame for Nat, as he's a great kid with a brilliant attitude and undoubted ability. The only problem is that I cannot guarantee him first-team football."

Overall, he made 83 appearances for Huddersfield, but failed to score for the West Yorkshire club.

Brown began his career at Lincoln City as a goal scoring revelation. Sadly, by the end of the season, he was receiving criticism from some of Lincoln's fans. In fairness to Brown, who works tirelessly for the team, he spent the entire season in an unfamiliar midfield role.

If Brown is given his opportunity to play as a centre-half then he could prove one of Lincoln's best players of the 2006/07 season. That prediction proved correct, as Brown was given one of the two vacant centre-half spots. His reward was to win the Lincoln City FC Away Player of the Season for 2006/07.

A change of Lincoln City manager in 2007 - ironically, Peter Jackson was named as Imps' manager - saw Brown slip out of favour but he did act as cover at both centre-half and right-back when injuries caused others to miss out. However, this was not enough for him to escape the wrath of the boo-boys. Rather unsurprisingly, he accepted to severe his Lincoln contract by mutual consent thereby paving the way for him to join Conference club Wrexham within hours of his departure from Lincoln.

Brown though struggled to claim a first team place at Wrexham so it was rather surprising that he was given a return to the Football League in November 2008. Perhaps, we should not be too surprised as it was Keith Alexander's Macclesfield Town - Alexander had signed Brown for Lincoln City. The transfer was an initial one month loan deal but this was later extended to the rest of the season as Brown scored several vital goals to ensure that Macclesfield stayed clear of relegation trouble. Brown's reward was a permanent move to Macclesfield on a two-year contract in July 2009.

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Position: striker.

Lincoln City career: 7+(4) appearances between July 2008 - January 2009

Clubs: Newcastle United, Bristol Rovers, Yeovil Town, Carlisle United, Lincoln City and Port Vale.

Gall joined Lincoln on an initial six-month loan deal from Carlisle United, who were then managed by Lincoln City legend John Ward. However, Gall had fallen out of favour with Ward and was told that he could look for a new club. This alerted several League One and League Two clubs, with Leyton Orient and Shrewsbury particularly interested. Gall even had advanced talks with League One side Cheltenham Town before turning them down to join Lincoln.

26-year-old Gall was born in Merthyr, Wales and has represented his country at schoolboy, youth and Under-21 level. His pedigree looks good after starting his career as a trainee at Newcastle United before turning professional in 2000.

He stayed at Newcastle for just one year after signing professional; he did not make a first team appearance for Newcastle. Bristol Rovers quickly snapped him up and he went on to make 60 appearances, although half of these were as a substitute, scoring 5 goals.

Gall left Bristol Rovers in February 2003 to drop into the non-league with the ambitious Yeovil Town. He quickly established himself as first team player and scored plenty of goals that would help Yeovil rise into the Football League. Unfortunately for Gall, his Football League goal scoring career stuttered as he found himself playing on the wing rather than his preferred striking position. As a result even though he made 154 Football League appearances for Yeovil, he scored just 29 Football League goals.

Gall became available for transfer in July 2006 and was immediately linked with Lincoln City. However, Lincoln would be unlucky in their pursuit of Gall, as he opted to join League One club Carlisle United. Once again, he was deployed mainly as a winger and therefore managed just 11 goals in 75 first team appearances.

By early 2008, Gall's career at Carlisle United was seemingly coming to an end. In March, he joined Major Soccer League club Toronto for a trial. He impressed sufficiently to be offered a four-year contract but rejected the move due to family reasons linked with the complicated transfer system that operates in the Major Soccer League.

That might have proved a mistake as Gall was released five months into his six-month loan contract at Lincoln City. This came after he began the season as a first choice striker. Despite plenty of effort, it was lack of goals that cost him his first team place.

Gall was still unable to cement a first team place at Carlisle despite a change of manager, so in February 2009, he accepted a loan move to Port Vale. Gall failed to scored for Port Vale, before injury curtailed his loan.

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Position: striker.

Lincoln City career: 2+(8) appearances between June 2008 - January 2009.

Clubs: Glasgow Rangers, Dunfermline, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Torquay United, Wigan Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town, Bradford City, Gillingham, Lincoln City and Sheffield FC.

David Graham began his career as a trainee at Glasgow Rangers in July 1995. He struggled to gain a first team place at Rangers, which is perhaps not surprisingly considering the wealth of talent at Rangers. He made just 5 appearances for Rangers before leaving in November 1998 to join Dunfermline. Again; he struggled to claim a regular first team place but did establish himself as a often called upon substitute. In total he made 44 appearances and scored 5 goals for Dunfermline.

In January 2001, Graham joined Inverness Caledonian Thistle but made just 4 appearances during a two-month loan deal. In March 2001, he spent the remainder of the 2000/01 season on loan at Torquay United. Despite only this brief period, Torquay saw enough potential in Graham to sign him permanently in July 2001.

It was at Torquay that Graham's career finally began to flourish as he helped Torquay go from relegation contenders in 2000/01 to automatic promotion successes in 2003/04 season. Although one player does not make a team, Graham's goals certain helped Torquay to success. In 130 appearances for Torquay, he scored 49 goals which is ratio of around one goal every two games.

His form began to get him noticed and in June 2004 he completed a £215,000 transfer to Wigan Athletic. Graham was often used a substitute by Wigan during the 2004/05 season - his debut season at Wigan - so scored just once in 32 appearances for Wigan.

In August 2005, Graham made a £250,000 move from Wigan to Sheffield Wednesday. Again, he struggled to recapture his goal scoring form of Torquay United. He scored just 3 goals in 30 appearances for Sheffield Wednesday.

Halfway through his two-year spell at Sheffield Wednesday, he joined Huddersfield Town on loan. This brought Graham into contact with current Imps' boss Peter Jackson, who was the then Huddersfield Town manager. He scored 9 goals in 18 appearances thereby matching his Torquay United form of one goal every two games.

While at Sheffield Wednesday, Graham had further loan spells at Bradford City and Torquay United. At Bradford, he scored 3 goals in 23 appearances but he failed to score for Torquay in seven appearances.

In August 2007, he finally left Sheffield Wednesday and opted to join Gillingham. However, a change of Gillingham manager soon after Graham signed meant that he was out-of-favour after scoring 4 goals in 19 appearances. He decided to cancel his Gillingham contract by "mutual consent" in January 2008 in the hope of finding a new club before the transfer window closed.

A new club failed to materialise, so when Graham signed for Lincoln City in June 2006, it meant that he had not played competitive football for six months. With this in mind, Jackson elected to offer Graham a six-month contract in the hope that Graham can recapture the promise and form that he once displayed for Torquay United.

However, it would be a quiet six months for Graham as he struggled to break into the Lincoln City first team. This was despite impressing during the only two matches that he started for The Imps. Graham was released in January 2009. In March 2009, Graham made the surprise move to minor non-league club Sheffield FC despite having the talent to play at a higher level.

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