Nice and Early Shrewsbury Town Match Thread......... - Page 3

Pendle Red · 21-04-2012, 18:43

Thoroughly absorbing game with both sides creating chances first half we were probably just outshone second half the more likely side to score, the team is now beginning to knit together and they look comfortable on the ball pity it's near the end of the season but at least the management will have more food for thought on contracts and the kind of players they need to bring in over the Summer.

lumpy · 21-04-2012, 22:44

Hi Guys, Shrews fan here. Great match and fair play, You guys were one of the better teams weve come up against this season, thought you deserved it prob more than us today. Think alot of shrews fans thought it would be alot easier than it was but i knew it was going to be a tough one. Good luck for the rest of the season and if we make it to Lge 1, hope we manage to stay and Accy join us, def one of my favourite places to come.

cashman · 21-04-2012, 22:51

Convinced yeh will make it Lumpy, could just nick the title, Good Luck in Div1.

Revived Red · 21-04-2012, 22:56

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Originally Posted by cashman

The Shrews fans were good lads, n a credit to the club.

All except the handful of unpleasant drunken characters who behaved abysmally on Preston station and on the train back to Crewe. They were a sharp contrast to the many friendly Shrews fans I met.

JimboJones · 22-04-2012, 08:11

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Originally Posted by Revived Red

All except the handful of unpleasant drunken characters who behaved abysmally on Preston station and on the train back to Crewe. They were a sharp contrast to the many friendly Shrews fans I met.

We try not to let them out of Shropshire,but these idiots must have slipped through the net

Enjoyable game,very happy to get a point.Torquay,and Creepy could have no complaints with our last three opponents who have had "nothing to play for" that's for sure! All the best (especially against Creepy!)

Greeny · 22-04-2012, 10:38

There were Shrews fans arrested in Accy town centre too.

shakermaker · 22-04-2012, 11:09

Accrington Stanley - Shrewsbury Town

Possession
55% - 45%

Shots
18 - 13

On Target
12 - 3

2nd in the league? You're having a laugh

I can only echo the comments praising the quality of the match, it was probably the best game I've seen all season.
Indeed Shrewsbury played some nice passing football and kept the ball for long periods, but did little with it. Conversely we made the most of our possession, created many chances and got behind their defence time after time.
Had their goalkeeper not had his game of the season we'd have walked it three or four goals to one.
Every game we play now is just increasing the excitement for next season.

lumpy · 22-04-2012, 15:16

The stats are certainly well in your favour and i don't think they give an innacurate picture of the match, i cant remember the last time we were as uncreative as that, certainly not in the past 4 months anyway.Thing about our keeper is he has- up until recently been a bit of a worry and got plenty of stick on our forum but give him his dues has kept us in the last 3 matches, he made some good saves against Port fail but surpassed that against you guys. As nice as we played at times, i thought Accy created the better chances and on another day we'd of been skulking back to the shire with our tail between our legs.

VALAIRIAN · 22-04-2012, 15:20

Think you are being a little hard on your lads, they played some good footy and kept possession well!!

One of the best teams I have seen this season - well done and good luck

cashman · 22-04-2012, 15:41

Well lumpy if yer concerned about yer keeper, How about we swop? yeh can have Bavs back.

MattSTFC · 22-04-2012, 17:51

Shrewsbury Town | News | Latest | Latest | Thanks from Accrington Stanley

Thank you.

sausage butty · 22-04-2012, 22:23

What we really mean is thanks for the cash injection

winstanley asfc · 23-04-2012, 09:02

The goals from the match are below.

BBC Sport - Highlights: Accrington 1-1 Shrewsbury

smudgie · 23-04-2012, 09:22

Great goal from super Hughes, really hope he stays

Looked a massive following, gutted I missed it

choirboy · 23-04-2012, 09:30

I agree with previous comments that this was probably the best game of the season at The Crown. It was a great atmosphere with the Shrews fans turning out in good numbers but the Stanley Ultras too were close to their best and gave excellent support. Shrewsbury started confidently and for the first 20 minutes looked like a well organised team playing slick passes and looking calm under pressure. However, Stanley were clearly up for the game and started to match the Shrews mid away through the first half and then took the initiative. The Shrews goal came a bit against the run of play and it was a scruffy shot on the turn by Gornell that may have taken a deflection of the Stanley defender in close attendance. By half time Stanley should have scored at least a couple of goals with bad misses by Joyce and Barnett and a bit of luck when one rolled across their goal mouth! The Shrews seem to come out in the second half seemingly content to hold their one goal advantage and to their credit Stanley continued to press hard for a goal. Paddy was a bit unlucky to find the Shrews keeper in very good form. The goal by Hughes was superb and it drifted away from the keeper as it flew into the side of the goal! The ref was watching a different game! He made odd decisions but got no help from his linesmen. Stanley also had a good shout for a penalty in the first half when one of our forwards was clearly pushed in the back. (Ashley Young would have buried himself!) Overall I would imagine the stats were much in Stanley's favour and in the end we should have won. I think we hit the post and bar four times in the match! However, it was a good point against a side who will get promoted and shows the continued improvement under Cooky and Liam.