Dave Edwards: A disappointing year ends and Shrewsbury Town need reinforcements

It was a really tough year, and it finished poorly with a pretty desperate festive period.

The Bristol Rovers defeat was so disappointing. They had been really struggling, and made a change of manager so you knew they might get a bit of a bounce, but they are the type of matches which Town have done well in this year - playing teams down there at home and being able to grind out results.

On another day it could have been very different. I think Salop fell on the wrong end of the big moments. The first one, John Marquis with a huge chance to open the scoring. You would expect him to score. It was really unfortunate.

It was a game of nothing where it felt like one goal was going to win it, but the manner of the goals that Shrewsbury conceded were desperately poor. 

Tommy McDermott made the mistake of the header, that's unfortunate, it happens, but it's just the way things seem to be going. Then you're chasing things, confidence is low, the fans get agitated and it all plays into this horrible scenario at the end of the game where you go and concede another two, and it looks a lot worse than what the actual game was.

However, home games against teams around you, they're the ones you have to be winning, and Town will be so disappointed.