Sean Scannell

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