Liam Hoofe @liamhoofe ?

It’s been a few weeks since I posted my first half of my mid-season review and whilst I must first apologise for my absence a lot has changed since then, Shrewsbury are currently on a eight game unbeaten run having conceded only one goal in five games. Things are finally starting to look up at the Meadow so [...]

Christmas/New Year is a very expensive time to be a football fan. Games are flying at you thick and fast and before you know it all your Christmas savings have been spent on a mid week away day on the south coast in which you took a stuffing. The new year also marks the half way [...]

It is a very rare occurrence in any story telling medium that the villain of the piece walks away victorious at the end but unlike art the beauty of sport is its unpredictability; there is no script that the story has to follow and so occasionally in sport, the bad guys do walk away the victor. [...]

In 2005 Luke Rodgers left Shrewsbury Town to join Crewe Alexandra following a wonderful 6 year period playing for Shrewsbury Town. He helped us achieve promotion from the conference before he left and was considered a real talismanic figure at the club. Since he departed Rodgers had played for a string of other clubs, most notably [...]

For the third time in as many games Shrewsbury found themselves chasing a game inside the opening ten minutes, a reoccurring theme so far throughout the campaign. However today they did not fall behind early on to an experienced League one outfit but cash strapped Blue Square premier side Hereford United. The FA cup is always [...]

Dropping a shot into the path of Luciano Becchio and conceding 4 goals in your first competitive game is not the best of ways to make a first impression at your new club. Performances like that are certainly hard to forget however a good player always learns from their mistakes and Chris Weale has been the [...]

It’s only October some of our more optimistic fans saying and in a sense they are correct, it is still early days but Shrewsbury’s problems are plain for all to see. We have failed to score a goal in our last three league games, have lost 3 of our last four competitive games, two of those [...]

This time last Friday we were struggling to find goals anywhere but we were in the midst of a 34 game unbeaten home run. A little over eight days later and we are no longer unbeaten at home but we have scored six goals in our last two outings. After late fight backs and stunning victories [...]

The 31 st of August is always a hotly anticipated day in the diary of any football fan, the final day of the transfer window always brings excitement, shock and in most cases disappointment. However for us Shrewsbury fans this year the day came and went like any other with no players signing and more importantly no [...]

Shrewsbury Town blogger Liam Hoofe is getting used to life in League One and his side have made a positive start to the season with a unlucky defeat against promotion favourites Sheffield United and a 1-0 home win against Preston North End.  Arriving 20 minutes late and already being 1-0 down was far from how I [...]

Shrewsbury’s 2-2 draw with local rival Wolves on Tuesday marked the first live football game I have attended in nearly three months and more importantly gave me my first chance to have a look at our new signings as we prepare for life in League One next season. There was five new faces in the starting [...]

With the Football League season just over a month away Football FanCast’s Shrewsbury Town blogger Liam Hoofe takes a look at how pre-season is shaping up at the New Meadow.  In three days time Shrewsbury will play their first game of their pre-season campaign as they continue to prepare for life in League One after their [...]

So with pre-season training only days away, it’s time to have a look through the squad and the potential new faces that will be turning up for duty at the Meadow this week. Since I last wrote there has still yet to be any agreement reached on the goalkeeper situation. Graham Turner confirmed this week that [...]

As the final whistle of this season was blown this weekend at Wembley and now everybody knows who they will be up against next campaign, managers and fans will turn their attentions to assembling their team’s squads for August and the season that awaits them. Scouring forums, checking retained lists and reading local newspapers fast becomes [...]

In the last week Shrewsbury Town have said goodbye to three of the most influencial players in our recent promotion from League Two. The transfer of Shane Sheriff and Nicky Wroe to Preston took place last week and then yesterday Ian Sharps announced he will not be signing a new contract with the club. Just how [...]

There’s always next season’ my mom used to tell me.All my hopes for the season, all the dreams I’d had of my team sealing promotion and lifting a trophy on the grandest stage of them all had all been taken away from me in one foul swoop. A last minute goal from Simeon Jackson, a goal [...]

Now that the dust has settled on another exciting season in League Two its time to look back at our season and instead of asking ourselves (as we normally would) where did it all go wrong, its time we asked just what did we do so right this season. It’s time to look back at five [...]

History has a tendency of repeating itself and nowhere more so than in the beautiful game we call football. On Saturday afternoon in the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury history repeated itself once again and in a glorious fashion. 33 years ago Graham Turner had managed Shrewsbury Town to a promotion of mythical proportions, one which had [...]

‘One more goal, one more goal’ was the chant being screamed out of the sold-out terrace at the Crown ground last Saturday as Shrewsbury Town came within 25 minutes of sealing their place in league one next season. That goal never came and their was a strange atmosphere come the final whistle, a sense of frustration [...]

When I pictured Shrewsbury finally sealing promotion from League Two it was on a grand stage, Wembley, a tense penalty shoot out, our keeper making a dramatic save to seal our place in league one in front of 25,000 screaming Salopians. Instead we could possibly seal it infront of 1,500 die hard Shrewsbury fans at the [...]