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Good point there. They haven't got a PL club within a hundred miles of them. In fact they haven't really got that many football league teams in their immediate vicinity either and most of those are L1/L2 teams.
Rowett certainly had sussed him out ultra quickly. One game was enough for him, well not even one game, 36 minutes of the second half where he'd come on as sub to know he'd seen enough. That was on the 1st April (some irony there).
The thing with Woods though is that he was still just a kid (not quite 20) when he came to us and an absolute baby in goalkeeping terms. Brian Clough trusted him enough at 18 to keep goal for the cup tied Shilton in their run to winning the League Cup in 77/78. That would be unthinkable doing that nowadays, trusting your 18 year old youth team/reserves goalkeeper in a Wembley cup final. He was also on the bench in the 1979 European Cup final the following season.
Cloughie knew he was never going to replace Shilton at Forest in the short term which is why he probably sold him to us.
Although at the time we got good money from West Ham for him (£800k I think IIRC), I always thought it was a sideways move for him as in the season just gone we'd finished above them in the second division.
Think it was earlier than that mate. His missed penalty in the 1988 Cup Final he did a stutter in his run up and IIRC he'd been taking them like that all that season and hadn't missed until that point.
It's the old Charlton fans saying Curbishley has taken them as far as he can go, again when they were mid table Premier League. West Ham board probably thinking they should be challenging for Champions League qualification. Be careful what you wish for.
The late, great Brian Clough used to say the same thing in his playing days when he was scoring 40 goals a season for Middlesbrough and they were still only finishing mid table.
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