00:00I'm at Shrewsbury's Sundorn Castle training ground ahead of Shrewsbury's opening game of the League 2 season against Bromley tomorrow afternoon.
00:10I see Shrewsbury playing League 2 for the first time in what is a decade and we have been talking to the Shrewsbury Town head coach Michael Appleton ahead of that game tomorrow afternoon in Shropshire.
00:21He kind of said that there's always a few nerves around knocking around and all the football clubs go into the first game of the season.
00:30With hope, and obviously after a difficult few years, Shrewsbury will be trying to make sure that they can get off to a positive start.
00:38We've got some injury news. It looks like they're going to have to make a 50-50 call on Eli Harrison who has some bruising on his foot.
00:46Picked that up in the final pre-season game against Burnley.
00:50Equally, Max Mata is set to be out for a fair stint because of an injury that he picked up in training.
01:00He has a hamstring problem. The exact severity of it is still not known yet because there's been a lot of swelling.
01:04We've also known that, and it's probably already kind of known just by looking at pre-season games and the captain's armband,
01:13but John Marquis is set to keep the captain's armband for the forthcoming season.
01:19Some interesting quotes from Michael Appleton about the Shrewsbury skipper, given the fact that the two of them have worked together and the personality of John Marquis.
01:28Appleton, pretty keen to stress smartness in the market is what he feels will be an advantage to them this season as they have built the squad.
01:36Seven new players through the door over the course of the last few months as Town have kind of bounced back in what you could argue as fairly positive style
01:45as they've built a squad to take place in this fourth-tier season.
01:50We're expecting to see quite a few debuts tomorrow.
01:53We're going to see a smaller pitch. We're going to see a back three.
01:55And everybody has quite a great deal of hope heading into the first game of the football season.
02:03All reaction from today's press conference will be on theshopgestar.com
02:06and I will be in place at the Crowd Meadow tomorrow afternoon.
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