Will Brook

Goalkeeper - Shrewsbury Town
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Will Brook

16 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words at Shrewsbury Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amine Karraoui is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Will Brook signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Will Brook commits to Shrewsbury Town for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Shrewsbury Town

Ismeal Kabia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Papus Ouattara knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Papus Ouattara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Ricardo Dinanga told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ricardo Dinanga has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Shrewsbury Town.

The dugout

Harrison Biggins gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Archie Collins linked with a move away

The name of Archie Collins keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shrewsbury Town say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

A door opens for Taylor Perry

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Adrián Calello takes up the language

The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Papus Ouattara, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77

A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Archie Collins in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shrewsbury Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tom Olyott is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings

Ismeal Kabia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Shrewsbury Town see off Newport County

Three points for Shrewsbury Town, 2‑1 the final word against Newport County in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Shrewsbury Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dru Yearwood is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Archie Collins was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

The decline has begun for Adrián Calello

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 39 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Shrewsbury Town is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

The dugout

Jacob Shaw has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jacob Shaw on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

11 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Shrewsbury Town

Archie Collins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Lorenz Hutchinson at Shrewsbury Town

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lorenz Hutchinson is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A row about effort at Shrewsbury Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amine Karraoui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Nick Freeman stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nick Freeman and Shrewsbury Town agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Hayden Matthews

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Shrewsbury Town told Hayden Matthews something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

The manager makes Harrison Biggins a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Shrewsbury Town. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief