Results show Town are moving in right direction says Debrah
Jesse Debrah feels Halifax Town are moving in the right direction ahead of Saturday's FA Trophy quarter-final at Aldershot.
The Shaymen are unbeaten in their last three games - the first time that has happened this year - and have kept three consecutive clean sheets for the first time this season.
They are small steps for a team who have underperformed this campaign and failed to meet expectations of competing for a play-off place.
But Debrah feels progress has been made since the dismal early weeks of the season.
"I feel that we've come a long way since the start of the season, because at the start of the season we were rock bottom after seven or eight games," he said.
"We're mid-table now, which isn't where we wanted to be, but it's better than being rock bottom.
"I feel like we are moving in the right direction in terms of if you compare it to the start of the season and parts of the season where we were going through games not creating any chances, losing quite a lot of games, conceding a lot of goals.
"Now it's three clean sheets in a row and we're creating chances.”
He added: "I know we haven't scored in the last two games but before that we had the 5-0 against Wealdstone, which I feel like had been coming for a while because
we had been creating chances over the last couple of months in games.
"I feel like we are moving in the right direction, we just need to be more clinical in taking our chances."
Debrah says the players share the fans' frustrations about how Town's season has gone.
"100 per cent, because we work so hard during the week
in training so that, on game day, we're equipped as best as we can be, and then when it doesn't go our way in terms of losses - conceding a lot of goals or not scoring goals we're all frustrated," he said.
"Ultimately we all want the same thing, which is Halifax to do well and win games and when that doesn't happen, we're losing and looking down the table instead of
looking up.
"Especially when you look at last season, where we finished in the play-offs but this season we're lower to midtable.
"None of us are happy with that, none of us are trying to settle for that.
"It does hurt, it hurts us a lot."
Town take a breather from the league this weekend when
they visit Aldershot, who sit two places below them in the table, in the last eight of the FA Trophy.
"As professionals, we go into every game trying to win," said Debrah on whether the competition has assumed extra importance given Halifax's league struggles.
"Obviously because the league season hasn't gone the way we'd planned, yeah, we do put the pressure on ourselves to go out and perform well in the FA Trophy and try and win it ultimately, to give the fans and the club something back.
"The league form hasn't been great so it's an amazing opportunity for us to sign off the season with a trophy.
"We put the pressure on ourselves as players and staff to try and ensure we do win the Trophy ultimately."