Town’s slide down the league table continues following late heartache at Barnet, writes Shrewsbury Town blogger James Pugh.

Five league games since we thrashed Hereford at home in November and no victories – disturbing fact for a team who are supposedly challenging for promotion.

It all seemed to be going well for Town on Saturday against lowly Barnet  – until Dean Holden failed to clear and let the opposition grab a late equaliser.

The result won’t have done the players any good in terms of confidence, which must be very low at the moment.

The fact is if we are genuinely serious about getting promotion then we should be beating teams like Barnet comfortably.

At the moment the next win looks a long way away and somehow Turner has got to get the players’ confidence at the levels it was earlier in the season.

I would also advise Turner to start playing Harrold and Robinson in the team rather than rely on the inexperienced kids Collins and Bradshaw.

I am all for giving youngsters a go if they are good enough, but now is the wrong time.

Just what has happened to Ainsworth? He has had success with Hereford in this division before and showed glimpses of it at the beginning of the season for Town.

I know he has had his injury problems, but a player with so much talent should be destroying defences in this league and needs to regain his confidence and be more positive.

With him on one wing and Wright on the other, we should be scoring bags full of goals, not relying on the odd one to win games.

In transfer news Town added some much needed strength to their defence by signing young centre back, Grandison from Coventry.

He’s a guy who has had first team experience at other clubs and at six foot four should add some commanding presence in our defence.

Next up for town is a tricky away game at mid-table Accrington on Tuesday.

Accrington have only lost two games at home in the league all season and score plenty of goals.

Town beware!