Sutton United v FC Halifax Town: Adam Lakeland's message to Shaymen players after barren run
KEEP calm and don't panic.
That's the message from FC Halifax Town chief Adam Lakeland, with his Shaymen side heading south on the back of three successive defeats in all competitions.
All told, Town have won just once in their last six matches. On the flip side, they had won their previous half a dozen outings.
Lakeland feels that several factors need to be taken into account regarding the Shaymen's most recent set of results, including standard of opponents with the likes of Exeter City, York City and Carlisle United being among the sides they have faced.
Equally, the Town boss believes that performances still remain half-decent.
He said: "We've said to them 'stay calm, stick together, keep working hard'.
"Good form doesn't last forever and neither does bad form.
"As a manager, you don't want to lose games of football and you don't want to lose games of football on a regular basis, and up until last week, we hadn't done that.
"But you're more concerned when your team's losing games and playing poorly or not creating chances.
"Obviously we're disappointed with our form in the last couple of weeks but I do feel we have, in the main, competed very well in the majority of those games and we've just fallen short through maybe ruthlessness of the opposition or them capitalising in errors we've made, or a lack of concentration we've had at times.
"But I think, in the main, performance levels have been reasonable, and we've just got to keep on working day-to-day to better for the next game, and that cycle, that process, never really ends."