Will Brook

Goalkeeper - Shrewsbury Town
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Will Brook

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The Shrewsbury Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismeal Kabia

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Will Brook 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Shrewsbury Town

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

This league is too small for Ethan Butera

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Shrewsbury Town will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between Shrewsbury Town and Ethan Butera

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shrewsbury Town, another week without a signature from Ethan Butera.

Market

A long bet from Shrewsbury Town on Ethan Butera

He is 20, and nobody at Shrewsbury Town signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Brian Okonkwo signs a new deal

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

Squad

Will Brook dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Shrewsbury Town and Cheltenham Town cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Cheltenham Town came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

Back issues
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The Shrewsbury Town Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Ismeal Kabia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Shrewsbury Town

Will Brook 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

Brian Okonkwo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brian Okonkwo has just signed for Shrewsbury Town, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Shrewsbury Town come up short against Colchester United

Colchester United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Mal Benning

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mal Benning, and the manager let it.

Market

Shrewsbury Town buy the years ahead of Brian Okonkwo

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

2 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Myles Roberts would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Myles Roberts is living that version at Shrewsbury Town, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Will Brook 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

Ricardo Dinanga signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ricardo Dinanga commits to Shrewsbury Town for another 3 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sam Stubbs

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Still no ink between Shrewsbury Town and Myles Roberts

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shrewsbury Town, another week without a signature from Myles Roberts.

Market

Shrewsbury Town buy the years ahead of Joshua Matthews

He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

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The Shrewsbury Town Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Josh Ruffels signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Josh Ruffels commits to Shrewsbury Town for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Shrewsbury Town

Will Brook 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.

Market

Talks stall between Shrewsbury Town and Will Boyle

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Isaac England falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Will Boyle asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

24 months and counting on Tom Anderson

Still no offer on the table, and Tom Anderson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief