Micky Mellon a touch deflated by safety

Doncaster Rovers are down after a 3-1 defeat at relegated Crewe and Blackpool's 4-0 thumping at home to champions Wigan means they will join Rovers, if Fleetwood get a point at Walsall on Monday.

Neither can catch Town with a game left, but there was an underwhelming feeling as Salop suffered a club record 13th home League defeat of the season.

Then with the crowd all gone, they had to wait 20 minutes for confirmation of the Crewe-Doncaster result after a heavily delayed kick off at Gresty Road.

Town, who lost keeper Jayson Leutwiler to a pulled muscle in the warm-up, seemed dead and buried after goals from Jack Baldwin (42) and Lee Angol (46 and 69) left them trailing 3-0.

But substitute Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro inspired a comeback by scoring on 74 then setting up headers for Andy Mangan (85) and Jack Grimmer (90).

Then former Town winger Jon Taylor came off the bench to grab a dramatic winner in the third minute of time added on. Midfielder Ian Black was sent off in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

And drained boss Mellon seemed more frustrated than elated at the nature of their survival.

He said: "We did it in a way that I'm not at all happy about because the crowd were fantastic, but pressure can do strange things to people.

"We looked like we were towing a caravan at times in certain areas of the pitch, and that's what pressure can do.

"Now we've survived we can say it was a case of 'job done' but there are lots of things going on in my head, at the minute, that I'll probably sort out another day.

"It's maybe the first time a few of the players have experienced something like this, but I've experienced it before as a manager.

"I've seen what it does to players - it can fuel them on, or they can go the other way. But as I've told the players, they've got to take this experience and remember it.

"They need to think about what they would do differently if ever they're unfortunate enough to be in that position again and so things better."

Mellon thinks he has achieved his first two objectives in two years - promotion from League Two and survival in League One.

He said: "My job when I first came here was to get the club promoted and then this season to keep us in League One.

"So I've done that now and it was important that Shrewsbury do that and try to grow from here.

"We knew when I sat down with the chairman last summer, we knew who we were going to lose.

"Connor Goldson and Ryan Woods looked like they were going to be sold and James Wesolowski and Nat Knight-Percival were not available.

"We knew it was going to be a tough season because you can't replace players like that with just wages - it's impossible.

"So we decided survival was the objective. Everyone else could have got carried away but my mind was always set on finishing above that line.

"That was what we had to achieve, and now we've done that, I'll see the chairman and see what the next objective is. But certainly so far, I've delivered on what I had to do."

Mellon believes the club has had to learn many lessons this season, continuing: "I need to sit down with the chairman and see what we want to do from here on in.

"I've done what I said I was going to do when I first came, and the important thing is Shrewsbury learns its lessons and realises that to be successful in this league.

"You've got to have League One players who can do League One things week-in, week-out. It's a league that's very unforgiving, very inconsistent and it's been a tough run for us.

"I want to thank my staff for all their support that we've needed, at times, because it's been tough. It's not been easy coming in on a Monday morning when you're a manager not used to losing so many games.

"I'm a man of great pride and it's been tough, but the objective was to get over the line and we've done that."