This week the club made three players available to clubs as the January transfer window opened, namely Jamie Ray, Jamie McDonagh and Jack Henderson.
Below Portadown manager Niall Currie explains the situations and reasonings behind those decisions:
I think it’s fair to our supporters to keep them updated at all times.
Jamie Ray is a great young man with all his football ahead of him but when a keeper like Jordan Williamson becomes available I feel we have a duty to continue to develop and strengthen the squad. I want all players fighting to stay in the team and performing at their very best and I feel getting Jordan makes that happen.
We have the best keeper in the league and now have a top drawer keeper in to challenge him and drive standards.
In regards to Jamie McDonagh, we had such high hopes for him but there comes a time when we have to look out for the player also.
It’s best Jamie goes and plays regularly to get his career back going again which we thought would be here but with a few injuries this has hampered him and us a lot but he’s now injury free and we agree he just needs to play regularly now.
Finally on Jack Henderson, personally this is a hard one for me. A wonderful young man who came here last season and made a huge impact in our success but unfortunately he’s only played 281 minutes this season so far and he’s an ambitious young man.
The easy decision is to keep Jack but we both know he will become even more frustrated as he wants to play so I reluctantly agree with him and wish him the very very best.