JOHN Coleman believes his Accrington youngsters have the right frame of mind to at least make the League Two play-offs – and says that expectations within his squad are sky high.

Coleman was rightly proud of his team as they won at Shrewsbury for the first time since reforming in 1968 to move even closer to the top seven with hotshot Bobby Grant grabbing the only goal of the game.

And the manager, who will today resist any bids for Grant and fellow strike star Michael Symes, says the win at the Prostar Stadium shows just what a good side Stanley have become.

“Not many teams will go down to Shrewsbury and get a 1-0 win,” he said. “It was hard work but I thought the whole team played really well and the back four were simply outstanding.

“Goals always change games but we got our goal at the right time, that’s for sure.

“And then for 25 minutes at the end of the first half I thought we were outstanding and were also denied a couple of penalties as we really took the game to Shrewsbury.

“I expected them to come out very strongly in the second half after a talking to from their manager and they did up it - but we defended well and were always dangerous on the break.”

Coleman believes his team now have that confidence to kick on and added: “There is a similar feeling to when we won the Conference.

“The lads are only young but their work rate and effort is tremendous. The lads have the belief and I hope we can keep them going on this run because we are going well.

“Expectations around the club have changed. We don’t accept second best. The lads are starting to believe it could be their year and the confidence is oozing out of them.

“We have a great team spirit and the right will to win. I have every faith in the team going on from this to the next level.”

Stanley face Barnet tomorrow night but will be without their skipper Andy Procter, who was sent off towards the end of the win for a second yellow card.

And Coleman said: “The first booking for Procter was harsh, especially after some of the challenges that went earlier in the game.

“And there were the two penalty appeals, the turned down appeal for the challenge on John Miles defied belief.”