Originally Posted by
DollyLongstaffe
It's was pretty clear from the press reports when we signed Woodman that he'd been promised he'd be first choice if he came. Obviously that would be qualified, he's not going to be immune from being dropped if he plays very badly, but he was told that he was coming as the preferred option.
Whether or not he impressed in the first few days of training is therefore a red herring. The logic is pretty simple. We had a keeper the management team were not keen to take a risk on. In order to persuade one that they felt more comfortable with to come here at short notice, they had to offer assurances he would play. After all, who's going to uproot themselves for half a season to sit on a different bench for a smaller club?
You can take the view that this is unfair to Rogers, and maybe Deek would agree. However he has his priorities as a football manager, and maximising his team's chances of getting results are further up the list than being nice to Danny Rogers.