What can Shrewsbury Town fans expect from Gareth Ainsworth?

The former Wycombe and Queens Park Rangers boss is a coup for Shrewsbury, joining with his long-term assistant Richard Dobson. 

The 51-year-old spent more than 10 years at Adams Park taking them from League Two strugglers to the Championship. 

So what can Shrewsbury fans expect from Ainsworth when he steps into the dugout for the first time? 

The Shropshire Star spoke to Sam Avery who covers Wycombe for the BBC and he described the job he did when in charge of The Chairboys. 

He said: "He was a really nice guy to interview and to speak to. He's just a really down-to-earth type of person.

"As a manager, from a Wycombe perspective, he had ten years in charge and took Wycombe to the highest place they'd ever been, which was the Championship.

"It was their only ever season in the second tier throughout their entire history."

Town find themselves in a tough spot at the foot of the League One table and Avery said Ainsworth will aim to exploit the weaknesses of his opponents. 

"When he comes up against opponents, in terms of how he is tactically, he'll often try and look for weaknesses in the opposition," he continued. "Ultimately, he's trying to get results.

"He said himself he's a results-based manager and he's maybe fallen victim to this ideological way of playing football, and playing out from the back. 

"He's got this tagline of being a long-ball, hoof-ball manager. But he's not really like that.

"He bases it on the opposition's weaknesses. So playing the ball into the channel or if he notices that the two or three centre-halves are not very physical then he might go long ball. 

"He's very respected by Wycombe fans. As a manager, I think for League One, he's exactly what Shrewsbury needs. He's worked on small budgets at Wycombe and Queens Park Rangers.

"He's got the best out of the players that he had at the time."

Town have used a variety of formations so far this season and one of the questions all supporters will want to know the answer to is what system will he play. 

"He varied it up a lot, in the early days

it was 4-4-2," Avery continued. "Then it was 4-3-3 and that was quite successful. In the year they got to the Championship. 

"He played 4-4-2 Diamond for most of that season. But what he tended to do... I mean, certainly at Wycombe, he tried to match the opposition on the road.

"So let's say the opposition play 3-4-3. He would likely go 3-4-3 to match the opposition away from home and simply ask his players to go 1-v-1 all over the pitch. 

"He did that in the season that Wycombe won promotion from League One."

It was not all plain sailing for the new Town boss when he was in charge in Buckinghamshire and it took Wycombe some time to get their engines going under him.

"One of the reasons his stint was so successful was because the club gave him time," Avery said. "He was there for ten years and then in his eighth year, got them up to the Championship. But certainly, for the first couple of years, it wasn't all plain sailing. But he eventually found his feet and started to work wonders.

"He was initially a player-manager. The first couple of years were a bit of a struggle and he said in his own words he was adapting from going from player to manager. 

"The summer of 2014 was a turning point. Wycombe were nearly relegated, they stayed up on the final day. 

"In the summer of 2014, he completely changed everything. He sort of said to himself I am going to be a manager now and he started wearing suits to games rather than wearing a tracksuit. 

"At that point, he got rid of any egos in the dressing room, anyone who was not pulling their weight and would only sign players who had the right temperament and the right mentality."I think he's even gone on record to say that he looks for that over-ability."