Town’s strange decision to let Jake Robinson play against his parent club proved to be a stroke of genius…for Torquay, writes Shrewsbury Town blogger James Pugh.

I felt letting Robinson go in January was a poor decision by Turner, especially to a promotion rival.

Since then he has gone on to score goals, including a brace against Town in the 5-0 thumping on Saturday.

In the first half of the season Robinson proved he can score goals at this level and even if he was let go because of a poor attitude, why not let him go to a mid-table team or one battling relegation.

But on top of all this, what benefits were Town going to gain from letting him play against us on Saturday?

Of course he was going to be fired up and inspired to prove a point to Turner – and he certainly did that.

It rounded off a disappointing week for Town, who let slip a lead to local rivals and fellow promotion-chasers Port Vale on Tuesday.

Unless Town start beating their promotion rivals how can we expect to get promoted.

We can’t rely on beating the average sides in the league and go into big games thinking ‘a point will do’.

Town also need to cut out the silly mistakes – the penalties, the own goals, the sendings off.

I understand the pressure of promotion is hotting up, but if we continue to gift teams goals we can kiss goodbye to League One football next season.

Following four wins in a row, one win in five is some contrast and is not good enough.

We have got the team to get promoted, now we need to start getting the results on the pitch.

After Saturday’s humiliation Town need to pick themselves up quickly and get back to winning ways before we lose further ground to our promotion rivals.

It won’t be easy though as this weekend we welcome high-flyers Wycombe who have already won an impressive eight league games on the road.

In the reverse fixture in September we drew 2-2 and following defeat to Torquay, it’s looking like a must-win game.