'Shrewsbury cannot get cut adrift': Ollie Westbury on Shrewsbury's needs for points

Ollie Westbury and Jonny Drury return with the latest episode of Shrews Views.

Transcript

00:00It's been a challenging opening six games. You know, you can't say anything else about it.

00:05You know, they've lost five out of six. They've got three points out of six.

00:09The home form, I think it's three wins in 2024 at home. So that's a worry.

00:18And this league is competitive, isn't it? It's a really, really competitive league.

00:22And Shrewsbury need to start picking up points because they don't want to get cut adrift.

00:27Because if you end up being, you know, you get to the 10 game margin and you've still got three

00:31points, then what's going to happen is that Shrewsbury are then going to need kind of lower

00:36mid table form for the remainder of the season to try and get out of it. It's what happened with

00:39Cheltenham last year. They barely had any points after 10 games, but then they actually played well

00:43for the remainder of the season. And probably if there'd have been a formed table from,

00:47I don't know, when the new manager, Darrell Clark came in and to the end of the campaign,

00:52then actually they wouldn't have been anywhere near the bottom four,

00:55but the damage was already done. So Shrewsbury, they need to start picking up points because

01:00you don't want to get cut adrift because then it becomes a real long, hard slog.