Matthew Tootle

Number 2

D.O.B.

11/10/1990

Birthplace

Widnes

Height

5ft 9in

Weight

11st 0lbs

Nickname

Toots

Position

Defender

Fee

Academy Graduate

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Thrown into the first team as a 19 year old by Dario not long after Gudjon Thordarson's departure in November 2009, it's a wonder how Toots was never on the first team radar until then. With assured performances at both right back, his natural position, and left back, he's become an almost ever present feature in the team with 70 appearances in 18 months.

He went from strength to strength in the 2010/2011 season and the inevitable rumours of interest from higher leagues started. It's without a doubt that those rumours will persist and with a good 2011-2012 season under his belt those rumours could well come to fruition.

It's needless to say then that there's little to pick at in Tootle's game, there are few wingers in the league who get the better of him whilst his darting runs up the wing should probably have provided him with more than the solitary goal he has to date in his career.

He's rightly, when fit, going to be one of the first names on the team sheet for 2011-2012.