Paul Simpson was in charge of Shrewsbury Town for the very first time yesterday. Here's what he made of the ninety minutes.

"It's disappointing to have lost obviously but I thought up until their first goal we were comfortable and they didn't look like scoring. We knew what to expect, we knew they'd be direct and put a lot of long balls in but I felt we coped with it comfortably. I was delighted with the two centre-halves and all the back four to be fair. It was a blow to lose Marc Tierney with a calf injury at half-time but I thought we coped quite well with it.

"We deserved our goal but they scored two very good goals. I don't know how many times that happens; when a former player (Jamie Tolley) gets stick from the fans and then pops one in. The winning goal from Green was a fantastic strike; I don't think any goalkeeper would have stopped that one. There are a lot of things I can be pleased about but the most disappointing thing is the result. The way we conceded the first goal I was also disappointed with as we had a couple of chances to clear the ball. There are all sorts of little things happening all over the pitch in areas where you don't think they can hurt you but they can cause problems and that's what happened today."

"It was a very good goal. I thought Pugh on the right caused a few problems throughout the game and I was delighted with his contribution. Hibbert took his goal very well so like I said there were good things out there but it's disappointing we're going away from here with nothing.

"I think Dave Hibbert's demonstrated this season that he can score goals it's just unfortunate that he's had a bit of a run lately where he's not been scoring. Maybe this is the change for him. Maybe he can get himself into the side on a regular basis and start scoring goals. He took his goal out there very well, I thought he was a threat and won a lot of balls in the air and put a lot of good balls out wide to Pugh. There are a lot of things we can work with. As I said at the press conferences on Wednesday we have to make sure we get enough points onto the board to make sure we stay in this division. I'm sure the league will have got a lot tighter after today's games. We've allowed Macclesfield to get a lot closer to us today which is disappointing because we had a chance to put them to bed."