Shrewsbury Town F.C.

But I don't think it's as bad as what it is so far.

And... yeah like i said there's there's so much wrong at that football club and stuff need to change now moving on to shrewsbury town pleasantly surprised i'll be honest uh currently sitting um 15th in the table on 18th points um on 18 points i should say um done all right in terms of results recently i think they've been going on okay they're pretty steady um But again, I will not be surprised if they end up in C. I think certainly in terms of pre-season, I was worried about Shrewsbury, as you all know, in my pre-season predictions.

I had them to be relegated.

But again, I think Gavin Cowan is doing a steady job.

So if we start from the F tier, we have Colchester United, Crawley Town, Rotherham United and Port Vale.

Moving up to E, we've got Rochdale, Northampton Town and Oldham Athletic.

Moving up to D, we have Bristol Rovers, Fleetwood Town, Shrewsbury Town and Swindon Town.

Moving up to the C category, we've got Chesterfield, Exeter City, Grimsby Town, Tranmere Rovers and Chillingham.

24 points are cleared for my boys, 20 goals scored, 21 conceded, so again, narrow margins.

We've won three of our last five games, lost two, and we beat Truro in the previous round, 1-0 at home to reach this stage, and as we've mentioned previously, In the last couple of games, we made the second round last year where we lost to Shrewsbury Town 2-1 in extra time.

We've met four times previously when they were in the National League back in the 2016-17 and the 2017-18 season.

We won three of the games and Guiseley won one of those games.

So it's a good standard.

And a lad who played over 100 appearances for Bristol Rovers, you know, and scored in the League One playoff final for Shrewsbury Town as well, albeit they lost a game, but that was quite surreal because, you know, I lived with these guys.

And yeah, but for myself personally, dropped out of football mainly because of time constraints and working Saturdays but also partly because I was always aiming for the top you know not really thinking about the lower levels and making a career out of that level which is probably a massive learning curve and reflection just to you know pull back to the group that I've got at the moment so yeah a lot of that's where youth football holds a special place in my heart and you know it's good to give back because it's a lot of time so that's what I do what I do yeah

yeah I can imagine I mean yeah I can it sounds like it it definitely sounds like it I mean I think that's really interesting you know that you you've had your own experiences in the FA Youth Cup and you know obviously a lot of other brilliant experiences playing with some great players decent level you know is that Do you think, obviously, as you sort of started to coach and coach more, do you think those experiences and, you know, obviously your players, you're under 18s now, will be going through the same thing.

I think you'll have some...

Like the other week, Shrewsbury, there was a player in my field for Shrewsbury who was 17.

So no excuses for age.

Anyone want to answer this question? Yeah.

Kalina never had a bad game, did he? That's how you know it's a good ref.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I want to say about it, because I know it's a Shrewsbury game, but you know the red card, what the Shrewsbury player got for pushing Rafter? I thought that was so unjustified, the red card, because if you looked at the Man United top of the game, Luke Shaw...

Oh, it's all right, Pete.

still playing for top spot but are through Mansfield are out so it's an interesting dynamic but yeah with this kind of you know couple of cup games coming up it's going to be interesting to see how Chesterfield choose to manage that in one sense I think maybe it will be a good thing to you know maybe have a bit of pressure off the league for a little bit and some time to think and properly regroup but I'm sure a lot of those players out there would like another game very very soon to try and go and put that first half right because they won't be happy at all without that as unfolded Yeah, as you say,

it is just to confirm that it is cup games in the next two, Yeovil on Saturday and then the Tuesday after that Mansfield, 7 o'clock kick-off by the way that one is, and then the next league action is just across the Severn Bridge from here, Bristol Rovers away on the 14th of November before Shrewsbury Town visit Chesterfield on the 21st, and then it's another visit to this neck of the woods, Swindon, the week after that, so Bristol Rovers away, Shrewsbury at home, Swindon away the next three league games after those, Chesterfield, Yeovil, Mansfield, Chesterfield, knockout games, and it is all knockout, there's Gary Robertson, Paddy Byrne having a chat on the park at the moment, keeping well clear of the players, I'm not quite sure physically where Paul Cook will be, I've picked up a red card, whether it's two yellows or a yellow and a red, we're not sure, at half-time.

But, Ben, you know, very, very difficult to know where Chesterfield go from here because there were a lot of changes made last week that were positive.

Very much a similar sort of side today and the polar opposite of what we saw.

Plans towards Charlie Cummins, who finds his first senior league goal in the EFL.

Shrewsbury have completed the turnaround and it's Will Boyle.

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You know how I like to create this mystique that I actually gather some data and have my own ratings and create the illusion that I sometimes go off more than just instinct.

I started looking at League 2, John.

I just wanted to talk about Shrewsbury.

I have this rating scale where I'm looking at set pieces and one of the data points is... set piece xg differential so the difference between like what you're per shot what you're what you're what you're what you're producing and what you're conceding so but i work but my ratings that i put together on my spreadsheet the top scorer gets like you know so many points then everyone else gets scaled down to zero based on how close they are to the top so you don't give you know if you're miles away you get less points lots of detail here but anyway the whole point of me telling you this is shows we are so far in front I had to look at it and just tweak it this week because it wasn't showing anything up for anyone else.

He's 16.0 to score any time for Huddersfield, which seems like a massive price.

And then finally, Shrewsbury Town.

who are the set-piece kings in the EFL, really.

If you look through the EFL or you look through the different leagues in terms of set-piece attacking threat, they've had 101 shots from set-piece issues.