fellow Conference National side AFC Telford United on loan in September 2011 for a month. He returned to Cambridge United in October 2011. Platt was then sent out on loan again to Lincoln City and when he returned to Cambridge in January 2012 he had his contract terminated and subsequently signed an 18-month permanent contract at Sincil Bank with Lincoln. On 21 February 2012 he suffered a broken tibia following a 50/50 challenge with James Chambers in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Doncaster Rovers. The injury would keep him out of action for almost a year, with Platt describing the recovery as a mental process as well as a physical one. He returned to action as a late substitute for Nicky Nicolau is Lincoln City's 4-2 Football Conference defeat at Southport on 8 January 2013 but this would prove to be his last action for the club as he left the club by mutual consent on 7 March 2013 with the club's new manager Gary Simpson reasoning that the club's relegation battle meant that Platt was unable to be given the games needed to regain full fitness. Platt immediately joined Gainsborough Trinity on a free transfer, making nine Football Conference North appearances for the club without scoring, before leaving the club at the end of the season having returned to the North-West to live. In July 2013 he joined Stalybridge Celtic, linking up with his former boss at Forest Green, Jim Harvey. References External links Ex-academy striker joins Bournemouth, retrieved 27 September 2014. 1986 births Living people Republic of Ireland association footballers Liverpool F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players Morecambe F.C. players Weymouth F.C. players Rushden & Diamonds F.C. players Forest Green Rovers F.C. players Cambridge United F.C. players National League (English football) players Lincoln City F.C. players Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players AFC Telford United players Association football forwards