Micky Mellon frustrated after late defeat
Shrewsbury Town chief Micky Mellon lamented his side's game-management after a crazy 2-1 defeat at Bury.
Salop suffered the heartache of conceding the decisive goal in the final minute for the second time this term.
The Town boss, whose side had dragged themselves back level after both teams had been reduced to 10 men, admitted his side's game management must improve.
Mellon said: "It's another tough one and after combing through the bits of it we're really disappointed. You've got to be able to see games out, it's game management at the end.
"We're disappointed about that, we have to see it through after such a crazy day like it's been.
"You'd have been happy with a point and to move on.
"We passed it great in the first-half but it's always the same up here, a real physical battle, it was fits and starts.
"We didn't create an awful lot but there wasn't much against us. It was just one of those types of games.
"They're always going to be like that but we've got to be better at the end."
The boss had no real complaints about skipper Adam El-Abd dismissal, the centre-half was shown a second yellow card in the second period.
But Mellon thought the latter challenge could have gone unpunished.
"The way that the game's gone, you know that everybody's walking a tightrope, he's already got a booking in the first half and any sort of challenge you make after that you run the risk of being sent off," he added.
"No complaints, I think it's a foul, I don't know if it's malicious or anything like that. If he's not already got the yellow maybe he just gets the booking - i think it was just a foul to be honest.
"The lad has knocked it by and ran into him but there were other things we were concerned about."
The game will also be remembered for an unfriendly skirmish as the players and staff made for the dressing rooms at half-time.
The makeshift tunnel was bulging as altercations kicked off between most of those involved in the match.
"I wasn't there at half-time, I leave first so I'm already up and in the dressing room by then, getting myself composed and ready to talk." revealed Mellon.
" It's a small tunnel, the steward's dealt with it. That's what happens sometimes, there was nothing untoward and we got ourselves in the dressing rooms and it was a keenly-contested man's game.
"Sometimes things run high but I never saw anything."
