JOSH SO KEEN TO GET THE SHREWS MOVING
JOSH Emmanuel was an architect of Shrewsbury’s downfall in the playoffs back in May – four months on, the boot is on the other foot.
Having helped Rotherham to promotion to the Championship at the expense of the Shrews, the right-back is now on a season-long loan with the beaten play-off finalists.
The 21-year-old, who made 38 appearances for the Millers in the third tier last term, is optimistic for his spell at Montgomery Waters Meadow – as long you don’t mention Wembley!
“I definitely feel I came on at Rotherham,” the onloan Ipswich man said.
“I can only thank Paul Warne and the whole coaching staff. It was a really good time for me there but, as I said, I won’t talk too much about Wembley!
“My positional play as a right-back obviously only comes through experience. I want to be a more all-rounded full-back to be honest. Hopefully I can do that here at Shrewsbury.”
The powerful, attack minded defender will compete with James Bolton, one of the heroes of last season’s run to Wembley, for a role in the backline.
After losing manager Paul Hurst to Emmanuel’s parent club Ipswich, the Shrews have started slowly under John Askey and failed to win any of their first eight games.
Emmanuel says that Askey has kept morale high.
“We’re not even worried about the result,” he said. “We’re grateful for the crowd here that will stay with us because at most clubs they wouldn’t, to be honest.
“We know what we need to do. We need to stick it in the back of the net.
“Even the gaffer himself has been telling us that as long as we do what we know we need to do, then the results will come.”