The Shrewsbury Town Post
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words at Shrewsbury Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. George McCormick is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of George McCormick
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Shrewsbury Town count the cost of losing Thomas White
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Apr 2029
A falling-out at Shrewsbury Town
Bence Varga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Antun Marković wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shrewsbury Town can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match14 Apr 2029
Shrewsbury Town and Wigan Athletic take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Simon Jackson on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Simon Jackson after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
The manager has not finished forgetting Devon Matthews's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
Raphael Borges Rodrigues was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Matt Palmer
- The dugout Antoni Sarcevic has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Still no signature from Thomas Sang