OUR home match against Shrewsbury tonight has taken on added significance following our controversial defeat at Plymouth.

We've gone five games without a victory and need to get back to winning ways as fast as possible if we're to keep alive our chances of making the play-offs.

We've got two home games coming up against teams who are just above us in the league, but tonight eight of the top 11 play each other.

There's more of the same on Saturday when we entertain Hartlepool, so something has to give.

Four weeks ago you could see the way we were creating chances and scoring goals and at the moment, because of the personnel we have, the chances aren't as frequent as they have been. The goals aren't there either.

There's no doubt that whoever I am able to select for tonight will give 100 per cent, but Shrewsbury are winning their games well, so it's going to be a big test for us.

Our match at Plymouth wasn't the greatest game of football, but I think it was the same probably all over the country. The conditions were horrendous.

It was a case of battle and take your chances. We battled well, worked hard and scored a good goal. Then we came undone.

A lot has been said about Plymouth's goals, but the players are adamant to a man that the ball had already gone out of play just before they scored the first.

Then, to give a penalty at that late stage, you have to be 100 per cent sure and there's no way the referee could have been that.

It was a linesman's decision because it's right in front of him, but he plays on and the ref took two or three seconds, which is a long time, before he blew his whistle. So that was disappointing.

But if you consider we brought in Tony Bird for his first start in four months and it was Ben Davies' first start for five months then I thought we deserved a draw.

Birmingham City's troubled David Burrows is currently training with us. He rang me up and asked if he could join us for training and I said it wasn't a problem.

He's been tremendous. The lads are enjoying him being here and I think he's enjoying it himself.

Whatever his problems are with Birmingham is nothing to do with us.

Even with our current injuries it's not even a question of us taking him on loan. He's just training with us and he wanted to keep a low profile.