CONSISTENCY’S THE KEY FOR SHAYMEN
Consistency is the watchword for The Shaymen’s promotion push, says Chris Millington.
Halifax were due to return to action on Tuesday night at Fylde after two-and-a-half weeks out of action thanks to games against Solihull Moors and Maidenhead United being postponed.
Town went into the Fylde game on the fringes of the National League’s top seven.
"We've got to put a run of games together," said the Town manager when asked if he felt The Shaymen had proven they were good enough to reach the play-offs.
"If you think back to the back end of last season, we went through March and April with just one defeat against Chesterfield away.
"We've got to do that again, we've got to start putting runs together because, yes, we've shown that we can be play-off contenders, we've shown that we can get good results away at the likes of Barnet and Solihull and we performed well away at Chesterfield, although we didn't get anything out of that game, but certainly took plenty of positives out of the performance.
"We know we can compete with the top teams in this division, what we've got to do is put consistent runs of results together now.
"Consistency is the watchword, but performing in a consistent fashion week-in, week-out has got to be matched by the results we pick up.
"We know we're capable of doing that, what we've got to do is show everyone else by actually doing it."
Millington says the fight for promotion in the National League is as open as he has ever known it.
"Chesterfield are the runaway leaders and barring a catastrophe for them, they're likely to win the division," he said. "But then after that it starts to get very congested.
"We fancy ourselves, we think that our squad of players, our group of players, is always going to be stronger in the second-half of the season as opposed to the first.
"We're going to work hard to make sure we pick up more points in the second-half of the season than we did in the first-half and we feel the group is gelling and getting better and better week on week.
"We're really excited about the second-half of the season and if we perform and we get a little bit of luck, then we stand a very, very solid chance of making the play-offs.”