Shrewsbury Town debrief: Any renewed hope seems to have evaporated
For the Shrewsbury fans who walked through the door on the opening day of the season, hopes of a different kind of campaign may have disappeared already.
As the sun shone on the Croud Meadow for the first day of the League Two season. The Shropshire faithful would have been optimistic that after a challenging couple of seasons, this year, things would be better.
It still could be, there is a long way to go. But after defeats at Tranmere and Grimsby in the last couple of days, and how those losses came about, those hopes feel like they are on the way out.
That could be an overreaction. But given the last 24 months following the club, it is not unreasonable to be slightly pessimistic.
It has been a particularly demoralising couple of days. Maybe the general consensus was that as you drop down a level, the club, which is dealing with financial struggles, would be able to compete more.
