Jamie Tolley: Have some Shrewsbury Town players got their suitcases out a little too soon?

The helicopter came in for military day and of course the sunshine all added to what could have been.

But speaking of sunshine, some of the players look like they're already looking towards their summer holidays and where they're jetting off to.

You just cannot afford to have that. You need all your players at it, week in, week out, until the end of the season.

Was it a bit of complacency, maybe? Looking at the table and the run of games that they've put together with the five wins on the spin.

Shrewsbury were second best all over the pitch, which is a really hard thing to say.

I think Gav touched on it in his interview at the end of the game. It's a hard thing for any manager to say when your team has been second best.

I'd imagine there are going to be a lot of conversations this week. A lot of meetings with individual players to try to get them refocused and back on task.

The management and staff can do all the analysis, give the lads all the information and the strategies, hit the training ground in various different ways, but ultimately it comes down to the players.

They are the ones that cross the white line, they are the ones that have to go out there and perform.

Sometimes, as a professional footballer, you have to problem solve as the game's going on. That is your job, that is what you're being paid for.

Through any 90 minutes things change and this is where there are experienced players in the team to take that leadership role on and drag players in if you need extra cover or you feel the gap are too big.

That didn't happen on Saturday and that was a big frustration for myself and I'd imagine the staff.

It's a horrible place to be as a professional when you look around and that optimism and buzz everybody had before the kick-off is gone and you find yourself 2-0 down in eight or nine minutes.

The goals could have been avoided. Experienced players at the back could just talk to the midfielders in front to pull them in. If you feel like your wing-back's too far away from you, pull him in and just stay tight, stay compact. But that didn't happen.

Then you have still got 82 minutes to be in a football match. You have still got to have that belief.

I still view the side as being safe from relegation - if not mathematically.

For them to be caught, with seven games left, would need four wins from the bottom two clubs, which I cannot really see happening.

The five recent wins put Town in a good position, but it can have the adverse effect where people get a little bit sloppy, a little bit complacent and don't stick to everything that has got them where they are. I think ultimately that is what we have seen over the last couple of games.

Saturday at lowly Newport County is a huge game. It gives Shrewsbury some real impetus to push themselves further clear.

Hopefully it's one the lads will be wanting to get back on task, back focused and get the points ticking over on the board again.