Stott confident that Town can secure play-off place
Jamie Stott says he has no doubts The Shaymen have got what it takes to finish in the play-offs this season.
The defender has been an integral part of Halifax's start to the campaign that currently sees them sit on the verge of the top seven with the best defensive record in the National League.
"I'm 100 per cent confident in what we've got, and we've got what it takes," Stott told the Courier when asked how he rated Town's play-off chances.
"It was the same story last year, when we come up against the top teams, we show we've got the quality to be in and around them. The late goal against Chesterfield, we drew at Barnet but should have won, we beat Bromley first day of the season, we drew with Gateshead, we drew at Solihull but should have beaten them late on.
"We have dropped points lately that, if you look at the table, we should be beating but if you ask me how confident I am we're going to finish in the top seven, I'd say 100 per cent confident in the ability of the team and the squad.
"We've been unlucky with injuries. I'm not using that as an excuse, but with a fully fit squad there's competition for places everywhere and that's only going to benefit us coming into the second-half of the season."
Stott believes The Shaymen are in "a really good place" at the minute.
"Barring the last couple of results, we've been on a good run," he said. "We've played some good stuff, I feel like we've played better at the start of the season and not been winning games.
"We're more solid at the back and over the last ten games we've scored a few more goals, although the last two away games we've not picked up points and then at York we dropped two points late on.
"Aldershot we dropped a point. We could easily have won those games so I feel like we've been on the end of a wrong bit of luck.
"It's all ifs, buts and maybes but if we'd got better results in the last few games, I feel like we'd be sitting comfortably in the play-offs at the minute.
"But that's still something we can do, we've got some tough games coming up but I'm confident in the team that we can pick up some wins before the New Year."
Halifax would be fourth in the table but for the late goals they've conceded recently against York, Fylde and Aldershot.
"These things happen in a season but there's no reason why we can't turn that around and be the team that's scoring late goals," said Stott.
"We've been creating chances, I don't feel like we're short of that, we've just got to be putting more of them away. Since we lost to Boreham Wood we've not been beaten by more than a single goal which just shows how tight the games are and that we're in games.
"We're just falling on the wrong end of them but hopefully we can turn that luck around or maybe have a bit more quality in-front of goal and we can finish games off earlier."
And Stott believes the quality is there in the Town squad to improve in the final third.
"We've got players at the top end of the pitch who can score goals," he said.