‘Our home form’s going to be important’ says Town boss Wild
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“I’m sure the supporters have heard me banging on about this two points a game mantra, so the point on Tuesday keeps it well on track and we now need to make sure that we continue on the two points a game mantra on Saturday.”
Visitors Barnet are 16th in the National League, having won just eight of their 29 league games so far this season.
The Bees have won just once in their last 12 matches and drew 0-0 at home with King’s Lynn on Tuesday night.
Wild said: “They’re a really good footballing side, he’s (Dean Brennan) got them playing some good stuff and I’m sure that we’ll need to be at it.
“They should have won late on at Torquay last Saturday, I saw the highlights, and Saturday’s another one of them where we’ve got to be at it from the first whistle, and we’ve got to take the game to them.”
Saturday is the first of four games at home for Halifax in their next five fixtures, with The Shaymen also hosting Dover, Bromley and Torquay at home following their trip to Weymouth next weekend.
“We’ve got 17 games left, 10 of them are at home, our home form’s going to be important,” Wild said.
On the condition of the Shay pitch, which has caused the postponement of two Halifax home games in recent weeks, the Town boss said: “I’ve seen it on Tuesday. Yeah, let’s leave it at that!”
Wild is hoping Matty Warburton is a 50-50 chance for inclusion on Saturday due to a tight quad.
“Matty hasn’t trained since we played Notts at home, and he’d been resting it, resting it, resting it, and it got to Monday and I just went ‘listen, you’re not fit’ and he had to accept that, which he didn’t want to!
Wild said defender Tyrell Warren and forward Zak Dearnley, neither of whom were involved on Tuesday, are both fit.
“Ty and Zak were doing some running before the game on Tuesday, which is the first time they’ve run on grass, the problem’s been that we’ve had no grass,” said Wild.
“We’ve been training on 3G for ten days, so getting them two out running on grass has been the problem. They’re both fit but they’ve done no running because Aaron (Scholes, physio) doesn’t want to run them on the 3G, and rightly so.”
And when asked about speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bradford, Wild said: “There hasn’t been any contact, and until there is, there’s nothing to talk about really.”