Steve Woods released with immediate effect ??

jmgull as someone who has captained a team, I would not expect you to look through any sentimental eyes, you would only pick a team to play under you based on how well they would do in your team.

I'm looking through my supporters eyes and to me the team is not just eleven faceless man out on a football pitch. There will be sometimes when a player is brought in just to do a job short term, say if we need to try and stay up, but there will be players who due to their time spent with the club, will be more than just someone in a TUFC shirt.

While I'm not suggesting that any thing has been done wrong here by the club, there has always been a part of football I have never ever liked. I have seem good loyal players moved out of the club and so often for no real good reason, we have seem players that have been badly treated by the club and one recent player was Kevin Hill.

Woods has been a good honest and committed player at our club and while he may not have scored all the gaols you may have liked, he should be leaving in a proper and decent fashion that fully recognizes and rewards all he as done for the club.

I CAN CONFIRM FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE THAT STEVE WOODS LEFT THE CLUB YESTERDAY AND THE WEBSITE WILL NOT PUBLISH IT DUE TO EMBARRASMENT
WOODS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING FOR GOOD

CAN NOT COMMENT ON THE REASONS AS IT WIL CAUSE PROBLEMS
LETS WAIT AND SEE WHAT .COM SAY

RIP STEVE WOODS YOU LOYAL SERVANT XXXXXXXXXXX

he has left as of yesterday trust me x

paulr, I'm not the sort who would start a rumour and that is why I put a question mark on my first post on this thread. Since then I have had many make contact with me and two of them I feel really would know If this was true or not. As I said if its wrong then I'll be very happy, but there are two many people who would be in the know, who seem to be in the know, if that makes sense. ;D

Dave, I really wish you would pay attention and not make comment that is factually incorrect.

As I posted before, contracts that are due to expire ARE up for discussion sixth months prior to the expiry date. This has been achieved on the players' behalf by the PFA and really it in effect gives them the chance to seek further employment if they are to be leaving a club, or seek alternative offers to the one they are in receipt of from their current employers. In Woods case this period arrived in January with his contract ending in June.

This invariably leads to many players all over the country effectively "playing out" their time, one hopes in a professional and responsible manner.

Unfortunately this has not been the case with Mr Woods who's subsequent attitude and negative influence has been causing problems and a meeting was arranged to try and resolve his dissatisfaction before it became a major distraction to the rest of the squad - unfortunately Mr Woods reaction was not the reaction that was expected of a "senior pro'" and he has subsequently been made an offer to terminate his contract.

I don't see this as any great drama, a player who can best be described as competent and somewhat long serving AND still on a very good remuneration has been informed that those terms are no longer available to him on completion of his current contract. His subsequent conduct has not been conducive to a good working relationship and his employers have decided to terminate his contract NOW.

There's no need for sentiment, there's no need for concern; we have five rather good central defenders in the club - three of these need the opportunity to establish themselves and hopefully develop into better ones. Don't forget that ninety per cent of a players "working time" is on the training ground where we do not see them, so objective views on his value to the club cannot really be made based purely on match time.

Steve Woods is merely a player who has come to the end of his useful life to his employer - just as happens to every other player in the game when the time arrives. He's been remarkably well paid for a Conference player who has TWICE been part of previous relegation. Competent rather than particularly good, and certainly not great. More at ease at the current level than ever he was in League 1, and still prone to the same errors that he was making when he arrived here.

He COULD have opted to settle down and put himself in the shop window to any clubs who showed interest from his name being circulated as it would have done, but it appears that he has opted NOT to.................more his loss than ours I would say.

Believe me I do pay pay attention merse and that remark was just one of many put to me, since then I have been given a view that could just be one from inside the club. At the end of the day the good of the club and the team must always come first in my mind.

It is no surprise that you would state that Woods will not be missed, we all know your views on him, some are justified, but his contribution to the team this season has in my view been first class.

As I said in a post above this one, maybe there is an outside chance that things might be resolved, it would be just that an outside one and would explain why the club want to deny that Woods has gone at this time.

khilllegend, dear lady can I please ask that you do not post in capitals, as on a forum it is taken as that you are shouting at people Steve Woods is not dead and only left the club, so should you be putting VIP on your post?