Sam Stubbs explains how Shrewsbury boss deals with fear and insists 'none of that would be allowed'

Shrewsbury begin a run of back-to-back home games with Saturday's clash against Cambridge, where they aim to finally end a run of no home league wins since February 1.

"If you look at the players that we've brought in I think they've been recruited because they are good pros and experienced pros," said Stubbs, 26, who is formerly of Exeter, Bradford and Cheltenham among others.

"So I think in terms of what the manager needs to do - it is very little. I don't think there's been a massive negative emotion around the place.

"I don't want to underplay the fact that we are very aware of the situation we're in and that we need to start winning football games because we do, but I don't think there is a feeling of panic or fear. I just don't think them two emotions would help.

"I think the manager's definitely helped with that in terms of not really probably relaying that. It's certainly not an emotion that I've had off him.

"It's business as usual a little bit. I think the gaffer comes across very logical and quite even-thinking. I always feel in terms of his tactics and his team talk. So I think a definite strength of him and his staff is he's not relaying any anxiety onto us."

"None of that would be allowed to seep in," the central defender added. "And if it is, we'd get to the root of the issue and we'd go and work on it or try and work on it on the Saturday."

Stubbs, son of former Everton defensive stalwart Alan, is one of only two outfield players alongside Sam Clucas to start each league so far this term.