Gaffer wants spirited display as high-flying Shrews come to One Call Stadium.
Manager Adam Murray wants his players to produce a spirited display full of desire and commitment, as our team hope to record precious points in the fight for survival when they entertain Shrewsbury Town on Monday (1.00pm).
Two goals in quick succession midway through the first half consigned us to a 2-0 defeat at Southend United yesterday, which means we are six points above the Sky Bet League Two drop zone with six matches of the season remaining.
âI said four months ago that this would go down to the wire and nothing has changed,â said our manager. âWhen youâre down there [near the bottom of the table] confidence suffers. What weâve got to do now is not feel sorry for ourselves, because we have to go again.â
Murray continued: âI think stability and consistency come hand-in-hand. Iâve said in my programme notes for Mondayâs home game, we are in our situation because of the amount of disruption and change thatâs gone through the club this season.
âWeâve obviously had a change of manager, weâve had staff leave, weâve had ridiculous amounts of players, too many loan players and about four physios, so there has been a ridiculous amount of change at the football club.
âYou put that into consideration with the style of play and the routines weâve tried to change with the lads and itâs adding to the challenge that weâre in. But we canât afford, at the minute, to sit back and go âThis is not fairâ. Weâve got to stand up and weâve got to fight.
âThe realistic of the situation is the facts of the matter that weâve got to deal with. Nobody is going to say âYouâve had to deal with that this season, here are three pointsâ â it doesnât work like that.
âAs long as we put performances in, show commitment and determination, I feel a million times more positive than I did this time last week [after the defeat to York City].â
Reflecting on yesterdayâs defeat at Roots Hall, our boss added: âI donât think anyone who was at the game can complain that we didnât perform well.Â
âThe ingredients I asked for before the game, the boys gave. We gave everything that we could. If weâre being honest, we came up against a side that were a little bit better than us in certain areas.
âWe matched them for large parts of the game and probably should have taken advantage of chances that we had. We didnât and we got punished for little errors, like we have been for the majority of this season.â