Paul Hurst: Schedule playing havoc with Shrewsbury Town training

Town start a run of four games in less than a fortnight with Friday’s League One trip to struggling Rochdale.

A home match with Oxford and a visit to Bradford are sandwiched by the Checkatrade Trophy final against Lincoln at Wembley.

And despite Town approaching the end of a long, hard season, Hurst had hoped to step up training for his promotion-chasing side.

“Often teams will get to this point of the season and talk about ticking over,” said Town boss Hurst. “We actually want to start picking training up.

“We’ve been hampered with the weather. With Ben Godfrey, for instance, picking up his injury, we feel that’s partly through a lack of getting enough training.

“In terms of knowing each other, that’s all done and dusted.

“Perhaps that’s in what you do, some clubs won’t need to do as much shape work perhaps, but for us we want to stay on it.

“Our schedule is all over the place. We’ve got (matches) Friday, Monday, Sunday, Thursday.

“I’d wrote a plan out but we were having to look at it again.

“It can be a nightmare if you let it get in your head. We have to embrace it, get on with it.

“If we do start thinking about it then it can play with your mind.

“A large percentage of society and footballers are creature of habit, a get into routines but I’m not going to moan about being in a final on a Sunday and national TV on a Thursday – which is great coverage for the club.”

Town have received an extra tickets for the Rochdale clash after selling out of their initial allocation of 540.

A further 491 have now gone on sale priced at £22 for adults, £16 seniors and under-21s and £5 for under-16s.

Shrewsbury fans will be able to pay on the day of the game.