Greg Docherty: We're all to blame for Shrewsbury Town mistakes

The popular Rangers loan man reached 10 goals for the season on Easter Monday but admitted it meant nothing as Sam Ricketts’ men squandered yet another lead.

Three points against Oxford would have all-but mathematically confirmed League One safety but Salop’s anxious wait to secure their status goes on with them needing AFC Wimbledon to not win tomorrow.

The 23-year-old, who is one of the favourites to win Town’s player of the season, says Shrews have nobody but themselves to blame for their shortcomings, adding that a lack of ability to grind out wins has cost the team success.

“You look around the table, a lot of the teams seem to win ugly and we don’t seem to do that,” said Docherty.

“Good football doesn’t win you football games sometimes, you need to have that nitty gritty fight to throw your body on the line.

“You saw us doing it at Gillingham but against Oxford we let ourselves down. We never punished them and the goals were soft. We need to bounce back and go again.”

Town dropped a position to 17th after rivals played games in hand on Tuesday but the gap to the drop remained four points.

Docherty continued: “We’ve shot ourselves in the foot so many times, particularly at home, we’ve been in winning positions so many times and we’ve let it slip through our own hands.

“It’s nobody’s fault but our own, we take massive responsibility for that. We’re extremely disappointed for the people that turn out.”

The Shrewsbury defence took heavy criticism after poor errors against Oxford, but Docherty said: “It’s what happens when you’re the last line of defence.

“We as forwards make errors countless times and it just doesn’t get punished. We should be in positions and scoring but we aren’t.”

“We still had more than enough to get something from Oxford and we squandered chances that we’d usually take.”