Shropshire united: Town and Bucks in loan link-up

Town's first-year pro striker Kaiman Anderson and youth-team centre-back Callum Grogan are two names that have been put forward for possible future spells at the New Bucks Head.

Town chief executive Matt Williams and Bucks managing director Lee Carter met last week to look at ways of working more closely together.

And as part of a 'Shropshire United' initiative, one of the first steps will be to help each other with the loan of players.

"We had a really good, open and honest discussion about the ways we can work together and how we perceive each other as clubs," said Williams.

"It was very positive and there's a lot we can do together.

"We talked about a couple of players but they're looking to recruit in positions that we don't have players to loan out at the moment.

"But the willingness is there to work together.

"Steve Kittrick (AFC Telford manager) is looking for an experienced centre-back and although we haven't got any of those available, Dominic Smith is nearly at that point where he could go there.

"His next step is probably to go to the Conference or League Two if he doesn't get a look-in here.

"But we've got Callum Grogan coming through in the youth team now.

"It's probably six months too early for him to go and get some adult football under his belt.

"But I said to Lee 'if you still need a centre-back in January, we've got Callum'.

"We'd like Kaiman Anderson to go out on loan and get some football.

"So that was one idea Lee was going to take back to Steve."

Williams believes the clubs shouldn't see each other as rivals but allies.

"People say we're local rivals but Lee and I both accept we're not rivals," he said. "It's important that we work with them and they work with us."

Telford took four players on trial that Town released in April and some of them could now win contracts with the Bucks.

Town boss Micky Mellon and Telford counterpart Kittrick knew each other when they were in charge at Fleetwood and Guiseley respectively.

Shrewsbury have also invited Kittrick to watch training so he can get to know the players better.

"I'm sure Micky would appreciate Steve seeing what we do in training and even looking at some of the second-year scholars," said Williams.