The Shrewsbury Town Post
Squad5 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Ismeal Kabia
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Shrewsbury Town do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Papus Ouattara falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lamin Sillah in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shrewsbury Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sam Clucas signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sam Clucas commits to Shrewsbury Town for another 1 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Henry Cartwright is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Sam Clucas
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Ismeal Kabia
6.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Shrewsbury Town had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nicholas Johnson on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Nicholas Johnson after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Josh Ruffels
- Market Shrewsbury Town bring in an old head
- Match Point won or two lost for Shrewsbury Town?