Shrewsbury Town 23/24 season review: The goalkeepers

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Jonny Drury and Ollie Westbury review Shrewsbury Town's 23/24 campaign. In the first video they look at the goalkeepers and discuss their performance over the season. They look at Marko Marosi and what the future holds for him, and discuss Harry Burgoyne's departure from the club.

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00:00 Hello, Sreety Fee fans and welcome to Shot to Star.com. My name is Jonny Drury. I'm here

00:14 alongside Salop correspondent Oli Westbury as we do our player position reviews from

00:20 Salop's 23/24 campaign. And we're going to start, as we always do, with the goalkeepers.

00:27 Another very, very impressive season for Shrewsbury's number one, Marco Morozzi. And I'll start

00:34 there, obviously, at the moment, talking about his future. But one of the best, a bedrock

00:41 of Shrewsbury Town's all-round not great season, but he was one of the standouts.

00:46 Yeah, I think everyone would agree. I think you'd have to go quite a while to find a Shrewsbury

00:51 Town fan that's perhaps not a fan of Marco Morozzi. Since I've started covering the club,

00:57 he has been probably the first main down on the team sheet. He's been absolutely outstanding

01:01 in fairness to him. Not sure how many clean sheets it was, but the amount of points that

01:07 he won Shrewsbury in the end with really, really important saves, that win away at Port

01:12 Vale. I remember home game here against Oxford, I think Jack Price scored that wonderful volley.

01:17 Moments later, it looked as if Oxford would go on to win 2-1, but Morozzi stuck out a

01:22 bit right-handed, so obviously he's been offered a new contract, even though the club have

01:27 got an option to extend his current deal. I assume it's probably not too big of an assumption

01:35 to make, but he's been offered lower terms because of the financial position that the

01:39 club finds themselves in at the moment. So, yeah, that's the situation that we're in with

01:44 Morozzi. It feels as though if you were him, you would be kind of looking elsewhere. I

01:50 don't think you can blame him for that. Paul Hurst, when we spoke to him last week, actually

01:54 said so. He doesn't expect him to be a Shrewsbury player next season. He's been a very good

02:00 servant to this football club over the last few years, won them many points and, to be

02:05 honest, there's probably a big reason why he saved that volley in the end.

02:08 Yeah, and in terms of his understudy, the Shrewsbury understudy has been for quite a

02:12 long time now. Harry Magoy has got a very, very good reputation around the club, obviously

02:17 off the field. His game time is limited. His time at Salah has come to an end now. How

02:21 do you sort of reflect on that? Were you maybe surprised that he went or was it sort of maybe

02:26 a natural progression that he moved on, given the fact that he's not played a lot of football?

02:29 Yeah, I think perhaps probably a natural progression, to be fair. I imagine he's been

02:34 here quite a while and he's been, obviously Marco's understudy for the last three seasons

02:38 that Marco's been here and probably not played as much football as he would have liked. He's

02:43 probably not played as much football probably even in the cup competitions that he would

02:46 have liked. I saw at the start of the year that obviously Matt Taylor chose to use Marco

02:51 Morosi in the cup competitions as well. So football's probably been a little bit few

02:57 and far between for Magoy and so I can understand why it's probably one of those positions.

03:01 I mean, I don't know this, but I imagine it's probably one of those positions where

03:04 he's probably slightly happy with the situation. He can now go and move on to a new challenge

03:11 and try and play a little bit more first team football. There's no doubt about Harry Magoy,

03:16 he's been a brilliant servant to Shrewsbury off the field, the way he's conducted himself,

03:22 the value that he has in the community, the personality that he is. You see him doing

03:25 those Christmas videos and things when he's singing those songs. So he's quite the character

03:30 and it'll be one of those that we've surely, surely missed.

03:33 I'm sure by all those involved in the effort.

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