Ollie Westbury analyses Shrewsbury's point at promotion chasing Wycombe

Shropshire Star

Ollie Westbury analyses Shrewsbury Town's point away at Wycombe. Basement boys Salop picked up their first point under Michael Appleton - as they bounced back from a 4-1 defeat at Birmingham on Saturday.

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00:00It's been a tough week for all those who follow Shrewsbury Town but here at Adams Park they

00:05have got their point, their first point under new head coach Michael Appleton and after

00:11a day where it was I suppose officially confirmed as we had Roland Witchely's open letter to

00:16supporters saying, well confirming after media reports surfaced on Sunday and then more reports

00:21on Monday, we had official confirmation and some communication from town's chairman of

00:26almost three decades that the takeover was off on a game day and in fairness with Shrewsbury

00:32coming to third place week and wonderers, probably nobody really gave them much of a

00:35chance with the rotten run of form that they're in and the amount of defeats that they've

00:38had, you know, but fair play to them, they produced, they showed a bit of everything

00:44on the day, you know, we saw Michael Appleton, he said, he said post Blues he wants his side

00:51to be braver on the ball, that was kind of, you know, the key message after that game

00:55and we saw that today, we actually, which is a surprise to see progression, you know,

01:01in quite such a short space of time, so it's a really interesting phase, you know, I suppose

01:06of development, we've seen Shrewsbury play a different way under Gareth Ainsworth, being

01:09quite direct, looking to hit the ball into the channel, chase it down, set pieces, but

01:14obviously we've seen something slightly different, perhaps we might see a little bit more, you

01:18know, whilst playing football, we might see a little bit more, you know, of an attacking

01:22threat when they come up against perhaps a side that's maybe not quite so good as Wickham

01:27with the attacking threat that Wickham have, but nonetheless they will be pleased with

01:31the way that they pass the ball around, you know, especially in the first half, not so

01:34much in the second, they did try still, it wasn't a lack of effort, but they didn't quite

01:37get it going and they didn't quite get it into the final third quite so much in the

01:41second period of this clash, but yeah, as I say, it had a bit of everything, they passed

01:47it round and then in the second half they really did put in some wonderful blocks, headers,

01:51clearances, backs to the wall, they do well here at Adams Park, I've been here three times

01:54to watch Shrewsbury Town and I haven't seen them lose once, two victories and a draw,

02:01damaging for Wickham though, obviously who are chasing automatic promotion, they would

02:05have seen the visit of bottom place Shrewsbury as a real opportunity for them to kind of

02:10get a victory on the board. At Shrewsbury they've got Cambridge at home this weekend,

02:14there's been an awful lot of bad news, but you know, you must give them credit where

02:21credit is due and this evening was a steady performance from Shrewsbury and they will

02:27be very pleased about that.

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