At age 23 Shaun was a late entrant in the world of professional football when joining Exeter City in 1986. He played 200 games there winning the [then] 4th Division Championship before a move to Swindon Town.
He was an ever present in 92/93 season scoring a Flintesque 13 goals as that lot down the M4 secured promotion to the Premier League. Again an ever present in that one season in the top flight, two successive relegations followed before he led the side back to the Championship.
Shaun's move to City for £50k came in September 1996 and although missing the last 10 games of the season through injury he'd already established himself as a firm favourite with the fans with his tough uncompromising style.
97/98 is the season he will be remembered for as he captained the side to promotion under John Ward. Had Goater not been sold and Shaun not suffered injury in the top of the table clash with Watford with 3 games remaining City probably would have gone up as Champions rather than runners-up.
That injury against Watford perhaps more than anything contributed to that single season [98/99] in the Championship as he did not play until 8 games from the end and by then City's relegation was all but secured.
Shaun hung up his boots in 2000 but stayed on the coaching staff until 2005 then followed spells with FGR ,Exeter and Torquay.
Still living in his native Devon, Shaun is now a Maintenance Manager for a local care home group.
How we could have done with someone possessing his character and commitment in recent years!
QPR [H] review: bad day at the office, no cause for concern?
Burnley [A] review: poor goals conceded but overall OK?
Norwich [A] review: If not for you Kal we’d have won that
Blackburn [A] review .... Sweet dreams are made of this
Huddersfield [H] review ..... this Beast is on fire!!
Blackpool [A] review .... on balance you have to take a cup half full view?
And so the improvement continues ....
CARDIFF [H] reviewed : If this style can be maintained then the sky’s the limit?
LUTON [H] reviewed : what was not to like about that?!
Unbeaten in 2 but an unwanted consistency in how we’re playing
Cup success in Burton, looking forward to Wigan plus thoughts on club sale
Why the long faces, we played well for an hour
Deja Vu ..... awful refereeing, late goal conceded
22/23 Season Preview [4] with Richard Latham
22/23 Season Preview [3] with Gary Owers
22/23 Season Preview [2] with Gareth Chilcott
22/23 Season Preview [1] with Gregor MacGregor & Chris Honor
Midsummer musings [2] with Ian Gay & Paul Binning [aka Exiled Robin]
Midsummer musings featuring DaveFevs & Neil Sutton
21/22 Season Review with Gary Owers
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