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Town Targeting Former Shrew Rodman - Ipswich Town News

TWTD understands the Blues are keen to sign former Shrewsbury winger Alex Rodman on a free transfer.

As previously reported, Rodman, 31, a key man in new Blues manager Paul Hurst’s Shrews side, turned down a new contract with the Shropshire club earlier in the week.

Sutton Coldfield-born Rodman was a schoolboy with Aston Villa, Wolves, Arden Forest and Coleshill Town but gave up football for a three-year spell from the age of 15 to concentrate on golf before joining Leamington, where he made his first senior appearances.

Stints with Grantham Town, Lincoln United, Gainsborough Trinity, Nuneaton Borough, Tamworth, Aldershot - during which time he overcame a pulmonary embolism which came close to killing him - and York City (loan) followed before Hurst signed him for Grimsby in 2013.

After one season at Blundell Park, England C cap Rodman opted to move on to Gateshead - after reported interest from Hibernian - before moving to Newport County in 2015.

A year later he joined to Notts County before Hurst took him to Shrewsbury in January 2017. Rodman made 64 starts and 11 sub appearances for the Shrews, scoring 10 goals.

In addition to his 11-a-side career, Rodman, who has a degree in Business Studies from Nottingham Trent and is studying a Masters in Sports Directorship at Manchester Metropolitan University, won five caps at futsal in 2006/07.

Blues boss Hurst said at his first press conference that he felt the squad he is inheriting was "slightly unbalanced” and lacking in wingers in particular.

Earlier today, he recruited one wideman, Jordan Roberts, on a free transfer following his Crawley exit at the end of last season.

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