Sean Scannell

Hearing he’s left Town, wish the guy well 👍

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Hearing he’s left Town, wish the guy well 👍

Where did you find this info from?

Quoted from Hurstomariner

Where did you find this info from?

Have a friend who does sessions with his brother Damien. He’s also removed GTFC player from his bio on Instagram 👍

That’s a shame but it’ll be a big salary off the wage bill no doubt. Said it a lot but Scannell was unfairly judged in our relegation season and I’m pleased that his cameo this season helped to prove a lot wrong about his abilities. I feel for him, it can’t be nice that injuries have basically ruined your career through no fault of your own. Best of luck to him.

Well if that’s true I wish him all the best. Looked a different class when he eventually played for us.
By all accounts a top guy with genuinely unfortunate injuries.
Good luck Sean.

If true then all the best Scanz.

Quoted from pontoonlew

That’s a shame but it’ll be a big salary off the wage bill no doubt. Said it a lot but Scannell was unfairly judged in our relegation season and I’m pleased that his cameo this season helped to prove a lot wrong about his abilities. I feel for him, it can’t be nice that injuries have basically ruined your career through no fault of your own. Best of luck to him.

I'm not sure how you can say he was unfairly judged. He was a player with a terrible fitness problem over recent seasons and that has carried on in the two seasons he has been with us. I think in both 20/21 and 21/22 he only played 4 full games in each season.

That would surprise me, seens as he would have a guarenteed income but if he moves on, i wish him all the best

Very popular bloke, very humble and quiet

Quoted from arryarryarry

I'm not sure how you can say he was unfairly judged. He was a player with a terrible fitness problem over recent seasons and that has carried on in the two seasons he has been with us. I think in both 20/21 and 21/22 he only played 4 full games in each season.

Aye but people confused that with him somehow being a poor player, which wasn’t true at all, I don’t think he had a bad game for us.

His injury record was indeed exactly as feared, but it wasn’t fair that our fans linked that to his abilities on the pitch.

Good luck to him, clearly loved by his fellow players from what I saw on videos and interviews

Quoted from pontoonlew

Aye but people confused that with him somehow being a poor player, which wasn’t true at all, I don’t think he had a bad game for us.

His injury record was indeed exactly as feared, but it wasn’t fair that our fans linked that to his abilities on the pitch.

Not sure how many judged him as poor, he showed glimpses of being a good player in the few times he was on the pitch but for me a poor signing considering his injury record.

If true  why have the club not said anything ?  and i think it would be silly not to take a contract  even if only to get some money while getting better.   Wish him well tho if he has gone

Quoted from pontoonlew

Aye but people confused that with him somehow being a poor player, which wasn’t true at all, I don’t think he had a bad game for us.

His injury record was indeed exactly as feared, but it wasn’t fair that our fans linked that to his abilities on the pitch.

Who said he was poor? People said it had been a mistake signing him due to his injury problems and they were right weren't they? He was an absolute pleasure to watch when he played but as said above that wasn't very often.

Quoted from Hagrid

That would surprise me, seens as he would have a guarenteed income but if he moves on, i wish him all the best

Very popular bloke, very humble and quiet

There might be an opportunity, if you can call it that, to retire due to injury and access his pension early. He will be able to play part-time providing it isn't in the league similarly to Croudson.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Who said he was poor? People said it had been a mistake signing him due to his injury problems and they were right weren't they? He was an absolute pleasure to watch when he played but as said above that wasn't very often.

It would be interesting to see how much he has been paid since signing for us and how many games he has actually played. The cost per game could make an interesting statistic.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Who said he was poor? People said it had been a mistake signing him due to his injury problems and they were right weren't they? He was an absolute pleasure to watch when he played but as said above that wasn't very often.

There were plenty out there in our fan base last season slating him and a lot of it on here. It was only after his performances this season that people started to accept he was a talented player.

He must have a few quid stashed away from his time in the Prem/Championship. Probably thinks it’s better to stay and do his rehab in London with his family than travel up here and stay in a hotel just to sit in Dave Moore’s portacabin all winter. Wouldn’t blame him.

Quality player, best player I've seen in a town shirt for a long time. I was looking forward to seeing him in div2, Good look to him

Quoted from Hagrid

That would surprise me, seens as he would have a guarenteed income but if he moves on, i wish him all the best

Very popular bloke, very humble and quiet

He might have more than one iron in the fire

Quoted from rancido

It would be interesting to see how much he has been paid since signing for us and how many games he has actually played. The cost per game could make an interesting statistic.

I understand the question. But surely the club must have some sort of insurance for injuries. Either that, or the player concerned get SSP and sorts out own insurance ??

Quoted from ska face

He must have a few quid stashed away from his time in the Prem/Championship. Probably thinks it’s better to stay and do his rehab in London with his family than travel up here and stay in a hotel just to sit in Dave Moore’s portacabin all winter. Wouldn’t blame him.

His brother Damien is a very knowledgeable guy about the body and runs a SuperDad group intended at body transformations etc. I imagine they’ll be linking up in some capacity for rehabilitation.

He might have got another job either in the game or something completely different.

Best of luck to him for the future.

Im taking this with a pinch of salt. google any of this its easy to find but doesnt prove bog all

Quoted from arryarryarry

I'm not sure how you can say he was unfairly judged. He was a player with a terrible fitness problem over recent seasons and that has carried on in the two seasons he has been with us. I think in both 20/21 and 21/22 he only played 4 full games in each season.

In the end, it was a fantastic player but injured V a mediocre player, but fit was a  PH dilemma.
Hope it works out for him, so good luck to him.

Quite an emotional interview with him starting at 3:10 in this video. Really feel for the guy. https://youtu.be/UpQ92VnhhCI

So as he definitely turned down our offer then?

Quoted from HertsGTFC

So as he definitely turned down our offer then?

I'm a tad sceptical on this one - nothing official from Town or from Scannell.
Pure speculation - but why would he turn down a contract given his injuries?
All will be revealed during the week I guess.

Quoted from Surrey97

Quite an emotional interview with him starting at 3:10 in this video. Really feel for the guy. https://youtu.be/UpQ92VnhhCI

Profound. Bless him.

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

I'm a tad sceptical on this one - nothing official from Town or from Scannell.
Pure speculation - but why would he turn down a contract given his injuries?
All will be revealed during the week I guess.

Given the injury problems he's had in recent years, he might just be fed up with it all. If he's got a bit of money put to one side and/or ideas about a future career, it might be that he feels it is time to move on from playing.

May only have been offered a very basic low wage with a good bit extra on appearance’s, goals, win bonus etc

Do his family still live in Croydon? Could be a case of this being the right time to put family first and get a non-league part-time gig playing or even coaching.

I don't think that says it's over or not. He might well be really down simply because the rest of the squad are in full training and he's not - as the coach said, it might well be the beginning of a new life for him. Who knows?

Quoted from Surrey97

Quite an emotional interview with him starting at 3:10 in this video. Really feel for the guy. https://youtu.be/UpQ92VnhhCI

Moving. I guess a few of us can relate to his story who are not footballers, nursing the wounds of a lifetime of excess, neglect and ignorance.

Where ever he ends up, or whatever he ends up doing, i wish him nothing but the best!
When he got game time, and was on it, it was a joy to watch, and we've not had that for a while!

Big thing, the other players seem to really like him as well.

Feel for the guy, got a bad injury when he was like 18 or 19 and has struggled with time out due to injuries that he never really recovered from. The sad thing before his latest injury he was on a decent run and was performing well at the start of the match he got injured in. Doing something like this is good for the mind, helping kids coming up in the game, if even one takes that to heart and thinks about how they treat their body and how they manage their career it'll be a good thing.

Going from a scholar to a professional contract is one of the hardest things to do, lot of kids will never make it in football and the standards have only become higher in modern times. He's right it's about more than working hard now, you have to work on everything from how you eat to how you use your free time.

Surely if he had half a mind to move on he would have gone Back home to his family and not spent the last month at the oaklands to be close to medical attention

Curse of the Premier league era again in one way, breaks through at a young age and without guidance ends up spending thousands in nightclubs.
If you are a professional athlete your body won't take that level of abuse for long, could that  be why he couldnt string a handful of games together over the last 4/5 seasons or so ?

When you consider an Olympic athlete, they dedicate themselves for four years between Olympics , with that single focus....yet plenty of footballers struggle to commit to their profession during an active season   never mind close season.

Must admit, he's played more games in his career than I realised - 395 appearances across 15 seasons at 26 games a season.

No doubt he's had his injury problems, especially with us. But earlier in his career, while at Palace and Huddersfield, he was regularly clocking 30+ games a season.

What's happened after that is probably a mixture of bad luck and bad judgment on his part.

He always seemed to have a good attitude while with us, though. And the players celebrated promotion with him and treated him as one of the team.

It was Matt Dean who first mentioned on Twitter that he believed Town were to offer him a pay-as-you-play deal, but nothing more substantive than that.

No ill feeling on my part. I wish him all the best.

You've got to have tremendous sympathy for the lad after watching that, obviously heartbreaking for him that he may not be able to come back from that injury.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has decided to turn down what must surely be a rock bottom offer from us, we've got to protect ourselves as, as he says, he may not be able to get back to playing. If he's got children and family down south maybe it's just not worth it for him to be away from them for such a protracted period when he's not got any chance of playing. Good of him to be volunteering his time to try and offer guidance to young footballers and offer tye benefit of his experience.

Whether he is coming back to us or not I certainly wish him the best of luck.

Seems like a genuinely decent bloke and clearly well thought of at the club.

Hopefully, whatever he chooses to do he’ll be happy and successful. Football is cruel, many of us, myself included wouldn’t have been sad to see him paid off earlier on but in his defence he did get fit and was having an impact on games…

Best of luck to the guy…

I have heard he has signed a 6 month contract and is already back in Grimsby/Laceby

Quoted from Morph2000

I have heard he has signed a 6 month contract and is already back in Grimsby/Laceby

Welcome aboard Morph! Hope your right. With all the positive energy around the club maybe Scannell can tap into it   Would love to see him fit and well, seeing him play again would be the icing on the cake.

Quoted from Morph2000

I have heard he has signed a 6 month contract and is already back in Grimsby/Laceby

I also thought this bit like liam hearn when he was out injured a basic contract to get the player through injury then reases when ready

He could have a future job in motivational speaking, and training young footballers as to the pitfalls and bad side of the profession, if injured long term or rejected at an early age?

Quoted from acko338

He could have a future job in motivational speaking, and training young footballers as to the pitfalls and bad side of the profession, if injured long term or rejected at an early age?

I'm not having a go, seriously, but no, not with his approach, 100% in the 'cautionary tale' territory. Motivational speakers build you up, they don't make you feel sympathy or empathy, just that you can and you will, end of story.
Not saying I am a fan of motivational speakers, I think it's more to do with the way you are raised, hinestly, but if you need an outside motivational force, you need someone who has been where Scanz has been and is upbeat about where you can be/should be. Just an opinion

Hurst confirms that Scannell has signed the contract offer, great news

Good news. A great role model for our younger players

This speaks volumes about the player and our club.

Great news, such a likeable guy and I really hope he gets through his rehabilitation well and gets back playing. And for us, if we can get him playing again, he’ll be a great player at this level.