07/06/2010 : Where Are They Now? : Stewart Planning Final Season Of Playing Career
7 June 2010 : Stewart Planning Final Season Of Playing Career
Former Yeovil Town striker Marcus Stewart has announced that the 2010-11 season will be his last in professional football. The 37 year old has agreed to play on for one more season with League One side Exeter City, but plans to use the coming season as a means to gradually ease his way into a coaching role at St James Park.

Stewart told the Exeter Express and Echo that he considered retirement a year ago when the Grecians were promoted into League One - something that he admitted he toyed with when he left Huish Park. But he insists that the coming season will be his last as he believes he is running out of legs:

"(Exeter City manager) Paul (Tisdale) wants me to carry on as a player so it's an easy decision for me. I said I'm willing to stay on and play. But next season is my last as a player, most definitely, 100 per cent. I was prepared to give up at the start of the season we got promoted to League One. Paul's reinvigorated me and got me enjoying football again as a player. I played 38 games last year but I don't think I'll be playing that again next year — my body can't take it. It's playing games Saturday, Tuesday that gets you because you haven't got that time for recovery."

Stewart explained that at the start of last season, he expected to be gradually phased out of the Exeter City line-up, and that he was surprised to make 38 appearances last season, to bring his total number of games for the Grecians to 82, including 71 league starts:

"I didn't expect to play 38 games last season and I did. That surprised me more than anyone I think. As long as my body can take it then I'm happy to play. Will I play as much next year? I doubt it, but if that's what it comes to then that's what I'll do. I am still a player, I am signed on as a player, so that's what I'll be there to do. I don't really have an aim of how many games I want to play. It'll be a case of when Paul needs me, that kind of thing. You can never go into a season thinking I'll play this or that number of games, because it doesn't work like that."

Stewart began the first steps towards a career in coaching during the tail end of his time at Huish Park, taking charge of one of the club's Centre of Excellence sides. The former Ipswich Town and Sunderland man admitted that he had found it hard to concentrate on both playing and coaching and hoped that winding down his playing career would help him further his coaching ambitions:

"Paul's (Paul Tisdale) obviously the manager, Tilly's (Andy Tilson) the development coach, and we all kind of muck in really. Obviously this year if I'm not playing as much it gives me an opportunity to work on the sidelines a lot more. I found it, not hard, but last year I was trying to get a balance between coaching and preparing for games as a player. If I'm not doing that as much it gives me the chance to focus on work off the pitch. I love working with the other lads and helping out in any way I can. I'm learning off a very good coach. I've been through an education as one of the players and now I'm going through an education as a coach."

Link: Marcus Stewart : Yeovil Town Statistics.


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