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Doncaster Midfielder Offered Training Chance - Ipswich Town News

Town and Bristol City are reported to have offered released Doncaster Rovers midfielder Martin Woods the chance to join them for pre-season training. The 27-year-old, who played for Mick McCarthy during his time as boss at Sunderland, has spent much of the last three seasons on the sidelines due to a groin injury.

The Scot, who was previously linked with a loan move to the Blues in September last year, is hoping to be fit for pre-season — which Town start in the final week of this month - having been recommended an orthodontic approach to his injury problems, which will realign his body, by specialists in Italy.

Last season he made 19 appearances, the year before only five and in 2010/11 he appeared 15 times.

Airdrie-born Woods started his career with then-Premier League Leeds, spending a month on loan with Hartlepool in 2004/05.

After the Whites, for whom he had made only one senior sub appearance, dropped out of the top flight he moved on to Sunderland, where he made two starts and six sub appearances, before joining Rotherham on a free in the summer of 2007.

A year later Woods, who has been capped by Scotland at U17, U19 and U21 levels, moved on to Doncaster, where he played under current Bristol City boss Sean O'Driscoll, and aside from a month on loan at Yeovil in 2008 he remained there until his release this summer.

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