Micky Mellon: I'll always do things my way

It's not been the easiest season for Shrewsbury Town, and the manager has endured his fair share of criticism at times over tactics and selections.

Mellon makes no secret of the fact he will tinker with his team and formation as he deems fit in his bid to try to overcome any opposition. He has regularly switched from a 4-4-2 diamond formation to 4-5-1, to 3-4-2-1 to 4-3-3 – often even during games.

But the Town boss will stop at nothing to try to get the right result – even if it means going against popular opinion.

"The important thing for people to understand is I'm not going to stop trying to make this team better," said Mellon.

"No one is going to influence me in doing that, whether that's the media or whatever.

"They know they've got someone here who will continue to prod them. And if I was a player I wouldn't have minded me as a manager.

"I want to be a guy who continually wants to be better and I'm not a guy who's influenced by many people. It's never been about me. So whenever anyone says anything about me, it's water off a duck's back.

"I couldn't care less. It's about my players and that's what I concentrate on."

Uunlike some other managers, Mellon generally dodges the invitation to publicly talk up any of Town's opponents.

"I concentrate on Shrewsbury. I'm going to keep trying to make my players better andnot concern myself with anyone else," he said.

In the summer Mellon made a bold statement about trying to build the best Shrewsbury Town team ever.

The sales of Connor Goldson and Ryan Woods may have delayed that process, but not dimmed the burning desire of the manager.

"I'm very clear in where I want to get to and I'm very confident in knowing how I'm going to get there, or keep getting closer to it," he said.

"Whether I get there I don't know, because I'm the type of guy who'd want to improve it again if he got there anyway.

"So it's all about continual improvement, having a gameplan and trying to make sure we always cause problems to teams."