[themaclad]

They loved it so much they are coming back, hello again to Shrewsbury Town who we play in the FA Cup on Saturday. They are going well this season in the upper tier of the second division having defeated Burton last Saturday, they did however manage to majestically self imploded against Exeter the week before which was a blip on recent form. They ran Chelsea close in a recent league cup tie and will no doubt give us a hard game.
Long term injured players Woods and Little are back in training although miles away from first team action.Be nice to see Fewster getting a run out this Saturday, otherwise expect a strongish line up to hopefully do the job.

[themaclad]

North End duly got into the third round of the F A Cup after a rather narrow 1-0 over Shrewsbury Town, Huntington's left footed strike from 12 yards settled the contest half way through the first half. A fairly even first half apart from the score line, an early one handed save by home keeper Stuckmann who kept out Collins goal bound shot set the tone. Within minutes Leutwiler had denied Gallagher down the other end in what was becoming a very open cup tie. The Shrews looked a decent outfit playing passing football with the flame haired Woods looking good in midfield.
A period of pressure brought what turned out to be the winning goal, a corner was not properly cleared and Huntington left footed blast would not have shamed a top striker. North End coped comfortably for the rest of the first half and although the visitors had a lot of the ball we did not look in trouble.
The second half was a different story as the Shrews dominated, it took the home side 20 minutes to realise they had not actually won the game, by which time the Shrews had had two efforts by Grant well saved by Stuckmann and a Collins effort cleared from the line by Buchanan.
It was the goal line clearance that finally brought a response from the home side and in one of their rare attacks into the Shrewsbury, Beckford was brought down in the area after a piece of comedy defending by the visitors keeper.
Gallagher's kick summed up the home sides second half performance, sliced horribly wide and appeared to hit a visiting fan in row 25 to the right of the goal.
It was end to end stuff by now as the visitors threw caution to the wind although it has to be said they created little. North End had chances at the end to win by more but in keeping with their second half performance they missed them all.

Preston North End 1 Shrewsbury Town 0 Att 6011

[St Charles Owl]

Good to see you into the third round!! I suppose now it becomes all about a good home tie again either of the Manc teams and a decent pay day to finance a couple of players!!!

[themaclad]

We'll take the Owls then the Blades, we can play City in the final. As if that really will happen, City will be knocked out long before we win the trophy