Shrewsbury Town defender praised for reaction to mistake

The defender, who rejoined Town this summer after being signed by Hurst for the fourth time, tried to beat Kamari Doyle on the edge of the box in Town’s 2-0 defeat to Exeter last Thursday.

The Brighton loanee took the ball off the defender and went through on goal before firing beyond Toby Savin to give the visitors the lead.

“He is an experienced player,” Hurst said when asked about the costly mistake. “I think his reaction after it was positive.

“It is just an error that is hard to understand. We want him to get the ball but we are not asking players to take unnecessary risks. We want them to be comfortable in terms of that. It was a nothing situation realistically, but what I would say is the lad has finished it well.

“When the opportunity arose it ended up in the back of the net, nearly all the actions in the game that are monitored and looked at, we are on the positive side of.

“But unfortunately, the one that matters the most we are not on the right side of and that is the sort of be-all and end-all really.

“But I think there are some encouraging signs. Again, that might be hard for some people to accept or understand, but I have got to be truthful, and I thought there were a lot of good things out there.

“Some of that play first half kind of almost took me by surprise I thought it was really good.”