Shrewsbury Town giving all for absent boss
Proud stand-in boss Aaron Wilbraham insists Shrewsbury Town’s physical stats show they are still giving their all for absent manager Steve Cotterill.
Wilbraham revealed that Town’s running figures in home games against Peterborough and Crewe this week, which they won and lost respectively, are among the best numbers so far this season.
Those stats quell concerns from supporters that the recent three-week break from match action and training has taken its toll on Town’s fitness.
And Wilbraham insists that, despite Cotterill spending three weeks in a hospital bed 120 miles away, players are still showing them what they can do.
“The lads’ attitude has been great, the running stats are really good. If you look at the Peterborough game and the game on Tuesday, the running stats were in the top three or four for the whole season,” Wilbraham said ahead of tomorrow’s trip to struggling Swindon.
“You can tell the boys are giving me and Dave (Longwell) everything, but also they know the manager is watching and they are letting the manager know they aren’t taking any liberties while he’s not here.
“There’s nothing wrong with the work-rate and attitude of the players, which is really pleasing – that’d be one thing I’d be disappointed in, if the group did that with the manager not here.
“But if anything they’ve gone the other way to show everybody how on board they are and they are doing it for the good of the club.
“There’s nothing better than when you’re backing your team-mate up and running for each other and that’s what this team do. We’ve not got to get bored of that, that’s how you get results.”
Cotterill, meanwhile, is moving closer to being cleared to leave hospital as he continues to recover from the virus. Wilbraham says the boss ‘sounds much stronger’.
