THE revolving door on the Gigg Lane dressing room got into full swing on Monday afternoon with the announcement of manager Graham Barrow's retained list.

And it made miserable reading for two of the club's locally-born players who are out of contract.

Both midfielders Lee Connell and Paul O'Shaughnessy have been told they are surplus to requirements at Gigg, along with second team goalkeeper Lewis Solly.

Eight remaining players who have reached the end of their current deals have been offered new contracts namely defenders Lee Unsworth, Colin Woodthorpe, Matt Barrass and Jon Cartledge, midfielders Dave Flitcroft and Simon Whaley and striker Gareth Seddon.

Promising young forward Daniel Douglas-Pringle has also been offered a contract after reaching the end of his three-year scholarship.

Meanwhile, both striker Joe O'Neill and winger Harpal Singh, who have been on loan from Preston North End and Leeds United respectively, have returned to their clubs.

The remaining players who are contracted for the 2004-2005 campaign are goalkeeper Glyn Garner, defenders Danny Swailes and Tom Kennedy, midfielders George Clegg, Terry Dunfield and Lee Duxbury and strikers Chris Porter and Dave Nugent.

While Solly never appeared in a first team game for the club both Connell and O'Shaughnessy did play parts in the campaign just ended.

Indeed, only last week Connell was awarded goal of the season for his spectacular effort at Cambridge United back in October.

At that time the versatile midfielder was scoring for fun and led the club's scoring charts going into November.

But after being a regular in the side he fell out of favour with the new management team of Barrow and Kelham O'Hanlon and his final first team start was at Oxford in mid-February.

O'Shaughnessy, on the other hand, never really made himself a permanent fixture in the team despite some honest, hard-working displays.

And the self-confessed Shakers fanatic is sure to be gutted by the news that he is no longer a Bury player.

But there's little room for sentiment in professional sport as Barrow knows well enough and very difficult decisions have had to be made before he embarks on assembling a squad for next season.