COLCHESTER United are willing to allow Paris Cowan-Hall to move away on loan in order to get some game time.

The 30-year-old attacker has found his U's appearances few and far between so far this season and has made just one start, in the EFL Trophy against West Ham United under-21s.

Cowan-Hall, who has made only two league starts for Colchester since joining them in July 2019, has not even been among the substitutes for the League Two club over recent weeks.

And with the recent addition of Joshua Bohui and Michael Folivi seemingly pushing the former Portsmouth and Wycombe Wanderers player further down the pecking order at the JobServe Community Stadium, the U's are prepared to allow the player to move out on loan.

U's boss Steve Ball said: “Paris needs some game time and we feel that a loan spell will help him to get some match minutes under his belt.

“We have a lot of options in the attacking areas at the moment and Paris hasn’t had too much game time, this season.

“I’ve had a chat with Paris and we’ve both agreed that playing games elsewhere is the best option for him at the moment.

“We have other players out on loan at the moment like Ollie Kensdale and Matt Weaire, so it can be beneficial."

Meanwhile, Ball feels his attacking players can be Colchester's 'match winners' this season.

Jevani Brown, Callum Harriott, Courtney Senior and Kwame Poku were all in fine for the U's in their 3-1 win over Stevenage, on Tuesday night.

The attacking quartet were also singled out for praise by Stevenage boss Alex Revell after Colchester's win and boss Ball says they are key players.

“There’s big expectations on these boys," said Ball.

“I pulled them as a four the other day actually and said to them ‘you’re our match winners’.

“That’s not putting anybody else in the team down, as we have some quality players who are deeper as well.

“But those four are quality, talented, exciting players and sometimes they’re going to dip and sometimes they’re going to be really high.

“If we can get them more high than not, then we’ll do well this year."