The Shrewsbury Town Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ismeal Kabia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Trey Ogunsuyi, 19, steals the show — 7.70
Marked 7.70 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Shrewsbury Town go back to the board over Baylee Dipepa
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.1M — a club that wants Baylee Dipepa enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $360.0K for Tom Iorpenda
Shrewsbury Town have gone to Swansea City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Shrewsbury Town
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Shrewsbury Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Shepherd 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Shrewsbury Town get the job done against Crewe Alexandra
A 2‑1 win over Crewe Alexandra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Ismeal Kabia
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
Samuel Turner steps up from the Shrewsbury Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samuel Turner has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: James Brown joins the Shrewsbury Town first team
- Market Stephen Pearson steps up from the Shrewsbury Town academy
- Market Shrewsbury Town promote Mark Evans from within