Shaun Pearson

Quoted from rancido

Exactly and I stopped trusting RS when he crapped on us the last time he was manager.

He didn't cr@p on us. He wasn't offered a new contract. Get a grip on the facts.

Quoted from forza ivano

Well if he signs for Wrexham or barrow, then there will be a lot of posters looking rather silly. One of the best centre halves in league2!?? Really??  Much as I like Pearson he's done bloody well to even earn a regular spot in a mid table team. He's a really good conference defender who can hold his own in league 2 , nothing more, nothing less. If we are going to challenge for promotion it will be with better quality than Pearson

Judging the standard of the players we've played against, he's comfartably a league 2 player.  Boyce and Gowling were a little bit lacking however.

Quoted from Hagrid

JT actually said shaun had an offer from MB and was going to sign before he went

It sounds like the offer was pulled when the manager went.

Quoted from Cloudy

Shaun as a player and as a man will be missed by GTFC and the wider NELincs community. Don't think anyone doubts that?

Shaun has not been a regular for 2 seasons, played in the 5-0 hammering at Crewe and the surrender at Fratton Park and does lack a bit of pace. I suspect his deal ending had him in the top 10-15% of the pay scale too?

RS knew he has to free up budget to get greater pace and athleticism into the squad.

Sad day but not totally unexpected for me. Just means we will start with a very new team. I can hear the excuse of needing time to gel.

I look forward to the 2018-19 season😁

So did at least 10 other players, I didn't make the Portsmouth game but they were all excrement against Crewe.

No idea yet who made this decision but if it was Russell Slade then he had better hope that he replaces him with someone better otherwise the knives will be out very early.

I know who I would have preferred as one of the centre backs and it isn't Boyce.

So then it's Boyce at the back and ????

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

So then it's Boyce at the back and ????

It's Boyce and the fact there are still 4 weeks before pre season and 10 weeks before the actual season.

I am really pleased about this. We finally have a management team with the balls to scrap our third worst team ever. We can build the foundations of a decent team again. Get rid of the clown of a goalie and the clear out will be complete. We have had 10 years of rubbish and it is time we moved forward.

Quoted from realist

I am really pleased about this. We finally have a management team with the balls to scrap our third worst team ever. We can build the foundations of a decent team again. Get rid of the clown of a goalie and the clear out will be complete. We have had 10 years of rubbish and it is time we moved forward.

I can see where you are coming from. What we had until MB was appointed was essentially a non-league side, or at least one of those well organised sides that could compete in lower L2/upper national all day long but wouldn't go much further.

The trouble is that promotion breeds emotion. Just because players served well in getting the side into L2 does not mean they are good enough for L2+. Pearson played a lot of games for Town but he wasn't first on the team sheet last year even for Hurst and neither was Disley. If the aim of the game is another promotion then neither player is what we need.

We have to be honest about these things even when we like the bloke. I remember people being heartbroken about Bobby C leaving and about Joe Waters going to America. Both of them were personal friends of the manager too so it must have been a hard decision for Dave Booth but he was professional and he was right. Wilkie was at BP then and he will remember that. I think Slade is right with this one too.

In his Twitter post Shaun said that GTFC won't be offering him a contract, I wonder if he meant that the club won't be offering him the contract he wanted?

Well I just hope whoever we get in is better, good luck to him for the rest of his career