Dave Edwards: Positive Shrewsbury start with a crucial win
The opening day against Cheltenham was always going to be a big occasion for this new-look Shrewsbury team.
I always felt they needed to get something on the board to ease the pressure, whether that was a point or a win, because there’s been so much change and so much optimism around the football club.
The fans are really excited and staff inside the football club are also really looking forward to the season, but we know how cut-throat football is and if results aren’t there, optimism quickly goes away.
I was really hoping they’d get a positive result and they did that. Even though it was only 1-0, they did it with a little bit of style as well.
It was a really solid performance from Shrewsbury and Matt Taylor will be delighted. They were in control for the whole game, even at 1-0 up going into the added-on 11 minutes that turned into 15.
