Town can be a force - keeper

Welsh goalkeeper Glyn Garner has urged Shrewsbury Town not to go over-board in their respect for League Two rivals.

The former Leyton Orient custodian believes Town should heed the lessons from Tuesday's stunning fightback against MK Dons.

Trailing 3-0 after 39 minutes, Town produced a rally of epic proportions to salvage the most unlikely of draws, and Garner is hopeful of the team carrying that impetus into tomorrow's trip to Morecambe.

"You have to show everyone respect but you can't show teams too much respect," said the 31-year-old, who will be making his first appearance at Christie Park tomorrow."We probably did that to MK Dons in the first half on Tuesday and as a result gave them too much space.

"We got punished for it but if you look at the second half when we put them under pressure, it was a totally different game.

"It shows that when we go for the jugular we are a force to be reckoned with in this division."

So much so that Garner is refusing to rule out a late charge for the play-offs, despite Town being 10 points adrift of the top seven with a cluster of the teams above them having played less games.

"You always have a sneaky eye on something like that," he added. "When the seventh place team gets into the play-offs it's something a lot of teams can look at and we are no different at the moment.

"It's a shame that we have drawn too many of the last five games when we deserved to win most of them because we would have been right in the mix.

"It's going to take good form, probably championship form to get there (to the play-offs) but I think it's in the locker and confidence is high."

From an individual viewpoint, Garner is facing up to a fresh challenge with Kidderminster's Scott Bevan signed in January as a replacement for the departing Ryan Esson and Chris Mackenzie.

"It's good to have a bit of competition and I'm sure Scott will be pushing hard," he added.

"The manager has his own opinions and I just have to keep trying to do my job.

"I was disappointed with the third goal on Tuesday because I thought I should have pushed it over the bar.

"But apart from that I thought I made some decent saves to keep us in the game at 3-2 and it's not been going too badly.

"I'm quite a bubbly character in the dressing room so hopefully that can continue."