Graham Turner fumes at inept Shrewsbury Town
Graham Turner was today attempting to pick up the pieces of the “most inept performance” in his second stint as Shrewsbury Town manager.
Last night’s 3-1 defeat at home to Yeovil means Shrewsbury have lost four of their last six home games while they have just two victories in 13 outings in all competitions.
Town remain out of the League One relegation zone but Turner offered a frank assessment of his side’s latest display as they conceded three goals for the second time in four days.
“We’ve got to be honest and say it’s probably the most inept performance since I’ve been at the club,” said Turner, who returned to Shrewsbury in the summer of 2010.
“You can’t give the opposition a goal start like we did. After that, you could see they were nice and relaxed and confident.
“They let us have it in certain areas and we barely troubled them.
“It’s a consequence of the start we had and we have done it several times this season when we have given silly early goals away – but that one was unforgivable.
“It contributed to a very, very poor performance.
“It’s the fewest chances we have created in any of the games and we didn’t deserve anything out of it.
“The players will be the first to admit we were way, way beneath the level we should be.”
The defeat adds pressure to Saturday’s home clash against a Colchester side who have won their last three games.
And Turner, who is continuing his hunt for further loan signings, is now seeking a major turnaround in performance levels from last night.
“We have another game on Saturday and it’s how players deal with that because we are under a bit of pressure now,” he added.
“You want people to come out and stand tall and perform. We don’t want one or two players going under and ducking and hiding.”
Town’s entire squad wore Kick It Out T-shirts in support of the campaign against racism in their pre-match warm-up.
Shrewsbury’s youngsters are in FA Youth Cup action at Coventry tonight. Their first round encounter gets under way at the Richo Arena at 7pm.
Comments for: "Graham Turner fumes at inept Shrewsbury Town"
Stretford Shrew
Must get one or more proven goalscorers to stop the rot.
Should have bought quality from higher divisions not mediocrity from lower divisions.
No need to spend on the ground now, so £ in the coffers should be spent on goals before the crowds decline even more.
gary
turner keeps saying he won t buy any one who is not any better than who is in the current sqad not hard then
coventry shrew
The blame starts at the chairman and the manger we not replaced james Collins. most clubs come up from a lower leagues and invest in the sqaud. We lost players as the chairman would not pay the wages. Where as all the money gone from the likes of grant Holt james Collins and Joe hart. The manger picks the staring 11 and buys the players we need to get to January and buy some quality players before its to late, or if graham turner can't cope at this level then step aside then get a manger who can as long he gets the backing from the board or will be back in league two.
Jezebel
I am a season ticketholder but fortunately I had to work so missed the match but my son went and I think he thought along the same lines as Mr Turner, so it was an inept performance but what are you going to do about it Graham??? I'm sure your answer will to be to recall the equally inept Mark Wright, we need something doing and fast or we will be spending the cold winter games in the relegation mire and struggling to survive in this division.
I am wrong in thinking that Mr Wycherley our revered chairman said after our promotion that this league was merely a stepping stone to the championship and funds were to be made available to the manager? Well the championship is going to be 2 leagues away from us at this rate.
Matthew
I said on here in the summer that the main difference between League One and Two is that quality up front, which we needed to address and didn't. Unfortunately before the season is when your best options are available and now it's slim pickings in the loan market.
People should be very careful what they wish for before criticising the Chairmen. Personally I think it's Turner who needs to be a bit more creative with the players he's looking at. Might be better to take an experienced player from a league below opposed to a raw, unproven loan signing from a prem or championship club.
steve Oxfordshire
Turning the tide when things are going woefully wrong isn't easy, because your opponents have a little more confidence that they're about to meet a team that's running on empty and up there own game in anticipation of a win.
This is very much about mind over matter, one of our best ever players for the right attitude when the chips were down was Ben Davies...he used to run and run regardless of the score, there was an inner self belief about him that was infectious and therefore other players around him were inspired to lift their own game to to match him.
The lads are dropping their heads far too easily, you can even see it in our captain...leadership at a new level is required which means coming out with an entirely new attitude. Everyone of our players right now needs to look in the mirror and say are they good enough to pull on a Shrews shirt in Division One...if they doubt it for one second then they shouldn't be on the pitch.
Where's the anger and willpower...get tough Town before it's too late.