Micky Mellon feels Town have moved forward
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon feels the club has moved forward on and off the pitch following his arrival.
Town travel to Home Park to take on John Sheridan's Plymouth tomorrow having failed to win or score in any of their last four away watches.
Yet Mellon's side remain in the play-off places and have kept fans on the edge of their seats with an attacking style of football that has secured giant-killing wins against Leicester, Blackpool and Norwich.
And Mellon, who arrived in the summer, insisted everyone at the club is working towards a brighter future.
He said: "The place is absolutely buzzing and we will not lose focus on what we are trying to do.
"We lost at Southend but we aren't going to get downhearted because of one moment where a ball has come into the box and a striker has got on the end of it.
"That defeat doesn't mean we have to start again. We are in a process here. We at the start of a journey we are working on and we will keep trying to improve the group and move forward.
"We are miles from where we first started. Miles from where we were as a football team on the pitch and a football club off the pitch."
Plymouth boss John Sheridan has, in the past, backed up Bill Shankly's view that "football is a simple game complicated by idiots." Mellon disagrees.
He said: "I've known John for a long time and I know he likes to play football, but I wouldn't say the game is simple.
"Football is always evolving and there are many, many factors involved in winning a game."