Jamie Grimes’ impressive start to his loan spell at Boston United continued on Tuesday night, scoring his first goal.

The Spireites’ title-winning skipper joined the Lincolnshire club on loan for the rest of the season at the start of this month. The centre-back, who is out of contract in the summer, found himself down the pecking order at the Blues this campaign.

But the 35-year-old is enjoying himself at the Pilgrims, who are now managed by former Ipswich Town, Grimsby Town and Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Hurst. So far Boston are unbeaten in five games since Grimes joined, including four wins. And they have kept three clean sheets at home in that time, scored six goals away at Scunthorpe United, and won 3-2 at Forest Green Rovers, two teams who are in the play-off places in the National League.

Grimes was on the scoresheet against Forest Green on Tuesday evening, scoring the second goal as they raced into a 3-0 lead. Although the hosts came back into it, Boston held on for the three points and they are now up to 10th place. The gap to the play-offs is nine points so that might be a stretch but if they keep up their good form then they could give themselves a sniff.

It has been a remarkable turnaround since Hurst came in. When he was appointed they were 17th and just three points above the relegation zone, with a five-game winless run costing Graham Coughlan his job.

With Grimes’ time at Chesterfield set to come to an end in the summer after five years at the club, his performances are putting him in the shop window to earn a contract at Boston or elsewhere.

Spireites boss Paul Cook has said that he hopes that they can give Grimes the send-off that he deserves come the end of the season.

"I can’t speak highly of him just as a person or a player for what he has done for both myself and the club,” Cook said. "He has been a role model on and off the pitch and we wish him well at Boston.”