Dan can still make grade

By Martin Morgan

Last updated 11:32, Friday, 22 August 2008

SUMMER signing Dan Robinson should not give up on the prospect of a return to full-time football, says Workington Reds boss Darren Edmondson.

Promising form: Reds' Dan Robinson takes the ball away from Carlisle’s Michael Bridges during the pre-season friendly that reds won 3-1

The Penrith-born former Gretna teenager was Reds’ opening off-season recruit in June, and Edmondson believes he could still have a big future in the game.

“He could play at a higher level,” said the manager. “It’s a case of him coming down to go back up. In training he never gives the ball away and technically is very good.”

Robinson scored three goals in pre-season games and has been thrust further in tot he spotlight with fellow strikers Michael Reed and Matthew Berkeley leaving Borough Park.

He is yet to find the net in Blue Square North but Edmondson is convinced the goals will flow.

“If we can get him to come out of his shell a bit more, I’m sure goals will come,” Edmondson added.

“He perhaps just need a little more self-belief but I’m sure he will come good.”

Reds’ supporters club is planning to launch a petition favouring a two-stadium option for the town’s RL and football clubs rather than the controversial super-stadium plan for the Derwent Park site.

Reds, who have been quoted a figure of between £1.2 and £1.5 million by Comets owner Keith Denham to redevelop Borough Park, remain vehement in their opposition to moving to a new shared stadium.

Director Alec Graham said: “We want to be in charge of our own destiny.”