Shrewsbury face huge week in League Two promotion chase

Morecambe away and Port Vale at home, these next two games are going to be the biggest two games of the season without a doubt; six points and we will get promoted.

Quite a bold statement to make I’m aware and yes every game at the moment seems to be the biggest game of our season, however I genuinely believe what I have just said.

We travel to Morecambe away this Saturday in what promises to be a very difficult encounter (we haven’t won at Morecambe since their return to the football league) whereas Southend travel away to Bristol Rovers and Torquay host Vale.

If Bristol Rovers can do us a huge favour and take points of Paul Sturrock’s men and if an in-form Port Vale side can do the same at Plainmoor then a win for us would be massive in our quest for automatic promotion.

What makes winning at Morecambe even more important is the pending game with Vale the Tuesday after. Our original game with Port Vale was called back at the start of February and this game will could make or break our season.

Shrews fans have been living safe in the knowledge that we have a game in hand and if we win that game we will be well within our rights to start getting excited about promotion. Well on Tuesday it’s do or die time, we either take three points and move ourselves above Torquay (working under the idea we at least match their result Saturday) and move ourselves at the very least four points clear of the play off places or we bottle it all together.

This match is is made all the more special by the fact that we have just set a new club record of 27 matches unbeaten in all competitions and so Graham Turner’s men will now be hoping to maintain this incredible record to bolster our promotion chances.

If Southend lose on Saturday and we can pick up two victories, this will put seven points clear of fourth place. I’m not going to get too excited but this will be a very promising position with only seven games of the season left to play.

By Shrewbury Town blogger Liam Hoofe 

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