LEE Bullock will today exit Hartlepool United and sign for Mansfield Town.

The midfielder has yet to appear for Pools this season and will move to Field Mill on an initial month-long loan deal with a view to a permanent transfer.

Stags boss Billy Dearden said: "He's got the experience and has an eye for goal and likes to get forward. He's scored one or two goals in his career. He gives us an extra dimension in the middle of the park.

"We have taken Lee for a month to start with and we will see how it goes from there."

Bullock made 56 appearances for Pools, scoring five times after signing from Cardiff in 2005. He has not figured in a first-team squad this season and appeared in central defence for the reserves.

He will train with his new team-mates this morning and face Stockport in League Two on Saturday.

Pools' second string were beaten 3-2 at Grimsby, with Michael Mackay scoring both goals. Andy Monkhouse started after a substitute appearance in Tuesday's Carling Cup defeat at Sheffield Wednesday, his first action of the season after a five-game suspension.

Ian Moore netted his first Pools goal at Hillsborough and boss Danny Wilson believes the strike is just what the former Leeds forward needed.

"I'm delighted for him,'' said Wilson. "He might not be prolific but he gets in great areas and his workrate is absolutely fantastic.

"He's in the back of defenders all the time, he goes out, comes back in again and I'm delighted he is off the mark, scruffy though it may have been.

"He still got on the end of it and that's what good strikers do. It's nice to get off the mark and strikers always get a bit nervous the longer they go without scoring.''

Midfielder Willie Boland will be out for up to four weeks after suffering a hamstring strain on Tuesday.

French winger Xavier Barrau yesterday joined Darlington after impressing manager Dave Penney during a trial spell.

The left-sided midfielder twice played for the reserves, including Tuesday's game with York, in which he scored a header, and has signed a contract until January.

With Martin Smith sidelined until around Christmas, Barrau will provide competition on the left-wing for Chris Palmer, who is also with the club until January after signing on loan from Wycombe Wanderers.

Barrau, 25, ended last season with Bradford City, where he scored two goals on the final day of the season against Millwall before being released in the summer.