But his fleeting appearances endeared him to fans, due to an exquisite range of passing, and many supporters on the Iron-Bru.net messageboard felt he should have been offered a contract to stay.
But Laws told the official website: "The one that saddens me a little bit more than most is Ryan, who we had high hopes for at the beginning of the season and he had done well in a period of the season.
"But he wants to play regularly, he needs regular football, and I can't give him that. I'm making the decision for his future as much as anything else.
"He needs games and I think it will benefit him if he goes somewhere else where he can play 30 or 40 games, that's the question mark that we had over him."