Toby Mullarkey

Central Defender - Fleetwood Town
5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Toby Mullarkey

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The Fleetwood Town Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ethan Ennis

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for James Norwood

142 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fleetwood Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The small margins put Fleetwood Town out

Out, 0‑4 to Bolton Wanderers, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The terraces

Fleetwood Town are taken apart by Bolton Wanderers — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings

AJ Bridge, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91

A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Ethan Ennis 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 Fleetwood Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to AJ Bridge

At 21 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.

Match

Fleetwood Town see off Shrewsbury Town

Three points for Fleetwood Town, 1‑0 the final word against Shrewsbury Town in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Fleetwood Town dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief