Rodgers was seething on the way home to South Wales following a dreadful performance. And with Sunderland due at the Liberty Stadium this weekend, the Swansea chief expects to be recalling most of the nine men he left out in Shropshire.
"A few of them have put their hands up to say don't pick me," he observed. "Some of them will get on the bus and think it is a game less. I don't think like that. I want to win every game."
He added: "Whether or not the game wasn't big enough for some players, I don't know. But we had the top scorer from the Championship last season, international players, experience. We were good enough.
"I said before the game that a team would be knocked out, a big team, and they would be knocked out because their attitude wasn't right. Ours wasn't right."
Despite taking the lead through a fortunate own goal, the Premier League new-boys subsided to their League Two hosts in meek fashion.
Marvin Morgan levelled for Shrewsbury before Mark Wright and Nicky Wroe struck in the second half to send the hosts into round three for the first time in 18 years.
And Rodgers was not happy.
"It is my most disappointing night in football," he said.
"We are not good enough to turn up anywhere and win a game at 70%. You need the right mindset to do the ugly bits of football."
Source: PA
Source: PA