Next up on Tuesday night at home is a game we really should be winning against Shrewsbury Town, their record this season is fractionally worse than ours but looking at some of their defeats, this should be a regulation 3 points for Russell and the lads, but as we know we wont be making it look that way despite the fact that Shrewsbury have failed to beat us on the last eight occasions.
Last time round back in February of this year we drew 1-1 up at their place, Rhys Healey scoring after Shrews keeper Joe Murphy spilt a Sam Nombe shot, and we could have gone on and won it with Healey hitting the crossbar from distance, and Nombe hitting the post as the final seconds ticked by.
SHREWSBURY TOWN – THE SEASON SO FAR – The Shrews are currently in 22nd place and struggling with a record of PLAYED 12, WON 1, DRAWN 5, LOST 6, GF 11 & GA 19 with 8 POINTS.
CURRENT FORM AT A GLANCE – LLLLDDL
SHREWSBURY TOWN LEAGUE RESULTS
Ipswich 2 Shrewsbury 1
Shrewsbury 3 Swindon 3
Shrewsbury 1 Burton Albion 1
Peterborough 5 Shrewsbury 1
Fleetwood 1 Shrewsbury 0
Shrewsbury 1 Rochdale 2
Shrewsbury 0 Bristol Rovers 1
AFCW 0 Shrewsbury 1
Shrewsbury 1 Gillingham 1
Plymouth 1 Shrewsbury 1
Shrewsbury 1 Northampton 2
Portsmouth 0 Shrewsbury 0
YEAR FORMED – 1886
GROUND – Montgomery Waters Meadow (9,875)
CLUB NICKNAME – Salop, The Blues, Town, The Shrews.
THE MANAGER – Sam Ricketts aged 39 and born in Aylesbury.
Ricketts played as a defender for Oxford Utd, Nuneaton Boro, Telford Utd, Swansea City, Hull City, Bolton, Wolves, Swindon and Coventry City playing a total of 569 games scoring 18 goals, he also played for the Welsh National team on 52 occasions.
Ricketts was appointed manager of Wrexham in May 2018, now fast forward to December 2018 and as speculation grew that he was to leave the club for another appointment he was advised to “stay away” from Wrexham, two days later he was appointed as the Shrewsbury boss.
His management stats are as follows, GAMES 118, WON 41, DRAWN 40, LOST 37, giving him a WIN RATIO of 34% although that drops significantly to 29% during his time at the Shrews.
THE MASCOT – The Shrewsbury Town mascot is Lenny the Lion, and it looks like he has a blemish free character and is one of the few mascots to travel to away games on occasions.
FORMER PLAYERS – Akpa Akpro, James Collins, Leo Fortune-West, Andre Gray, Joe Hart, Grant Holt, Gary Megson, Steve Ogrizovic, David Pleat, Neville Southall, Gylfi Sigurosson, Sam Winnall.
PLAYED FOR BOTH – Ryan Lowe, James Tavernier, Scott Bevan, Larnell Cole, Paul Downing, Jack Hendry, Lee Nicholls, Carl Regan, Mark Williams, and Mark Wright.FORMER MANAGERS – Graham Turner, Asa Hartford, John Bond, Jimmy Quinn, Kevin Ratcliffe.
FAMOUS FANS – I tried, but I cannot find anyone other than an unknown weather girl for GMTV.
CURRENT MATCH ODDS – MK Dons 10/11 Draw 13/5 Shrewsbury 7/2
SHOOTERS BOOTS – Brad Walker & Aaron Pierre on 2 goals.
LAST TIME ROUND – Saturday Feb 8th, 2020 – Shrewsbury 1 MK Dons 1
Team – Nicholls, Brittain (Poole), Williams, Moore-Taylor, Lewington, Thompson (McGrandles). Houghton, Gilbey, Morris, Nombe, Healey.
Unused Subs – Walsh, Reeves, Fisher, Gladwin, Kasumu.
Goal – Beckles 62’, Healey 77’
Ref – Peter Wright (3 Yellows)
Attendance – 5,791
HEAD 2 HEAD
We have played Shrewsbury on 16 occasions with a record of WON 8, DRAWN 5, LOST 3.
2019/20 – Shrewsbury 1 MK Dons 1 (Healey)
2019/20 – MK Dons 1 Shrewsbury 0 (Healey)
2017/18 – Shrewsbury 0 MK Dons 1 (Agard)
2017/18 – MK Dons 1 Shrewsbury 1 (Pawlett)
2016/17 – MK Dons 2 Shrewsbury 1 (Agard, Barnes)
2016/17 – Shrewsbury 0 MK Dons 1 (Powell)
2013/14 – MK Dons 3 Shrewsbury 2 (Alli, Long, Bowditch)
2013/14 – Shrewsbury 0 MK Dons 0
2012/13 – MK Dons 2 Shrewsbury 3 (Lowe 2)
2012/13 – Shrewsbury 2 MK Dons 2 (Balanta, Bowditch)
2007/08 – Shrewsbury 3 MK Dons 3 (Wright 2, Gallen)
2007/08 – MK Dons 3 Shrewsbury 0 (Knight, Dyer, Andrews)
2006/07 – MK Dons 1 Shrewsbury 2 (LG 2 Playoff) (Andrews)
2006/07 – Shrewsbury 0 MK Dons 0 (LG 2 Playoff)
2006/07 – Shrewsbury 2 MK Dons 1 (Platt)
2006/07 – MK Dons 2 Shrewsbury 0 (Edds, Platt)
