Wild demands improvement from Shaymen for the visit of Bromley

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“So I’m hoping that gets the rustiness away from us and we’re back to somewhere where we need to be on Saturday. “I said to the players if they play like that on Saturday, it’s going to be a long afternoon. It’s upon yourselves as professional footballers to roll your sleeves up, get into training Thursday morning and be ready for two hard days training ahead of Bromley.”

Town have now gone 15 games without keeping a clean sheet.

“It’s disappointing,” said Wild. “Fans want a more exciting brand of football, we’ve brought that, so at times that does come with its own consequences of clean sheets. Yes we need to be better, but we’re scoring goals generally, so you can’t have everything.”

Southport was the first of eight games in 26 days for The Shaymen.

But Wild is confident he has the squad capable of coping with such an arduous run of games.

“Hydey (Jake Hyde) will be back next week,” said the Town boss, “which gives us more options, and we’ve brought Tavhon (Campbell) in, who will give us goals as well.

“Jamie Allen will have another two days training by Saturday which gets him back up to where he needs to be.

“In terms of the squad, we’ve got loads of potential, loads of top players, it’s just hitting the back of the net.”

On loanee Tavhon Campbell, who Town signed from Cheltenham on loan for the rest of the season, but was cup-tied in the FA Trophy, Wild said: “He’s got a bit of magic, he’s strong, he can hold the ball up, he can face people up, he’s got a trick, he can turn and he scores goals.

“He’s been to Gloucester (on loan) and scored five goals so we’ve got a kid who’s bang in form and ready to prove a point to Cheltenham.”

Wild added: “We had four targets for that position, and he was the number one target, so we’re very pleased that we got him, because we fought off competition for Tavhon, one of whom was Bromley.

And on midfielder Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who is still working his way back to full fitness, Wild said: “He was out running again on Tuesday (before the game), he’s getting fitter and stronger, and we’re hoping he’ll be giving me something to think about soon.”