“Not good enough,” says frustrated Town boss Millington after Shaymen lose at home to Aldershot
Josh Barrett’s third minute goal proved decisive after Halifax failed to muster an equaliser in an underwhelming performance.
“Poor, disappointing, not the Halifax Town that we expect and I’m very annoyed,” Millington told the Courier.
“We started off poor, started off sloppy, any number of players weren’t the players we signed, weren’t the players we see regularly in training, weren’t the players we expect them to be on a matchday.
“We conceded a very, very sloppy goal. They’ll be pleased with the finish but the fact is we’ve allowed them to come in from a wide area, something we don’t do, we’ve allowed them to flick it on the edge of our box with a back heel, something we don’t allow teams to do, and then we’ve dropped off so he’s got space to curl it into the far corner, something which we don’t allow teams to do, something we discussed yesterday in the walk-through preparations for the game.
The Shaymen registered only two efforts on target after Barrett’s early goal.
“It is what it is isn’t it, we know if you go 1-0 down in a National League game, especially to a team who will be focusing on making themselves well-structured behind the ball, given the amount of goals they’ve conceded last season and then in the first game this season – neither keeper’s really had anything to do after they scored,” Millington said.
“There’s always goals against Aldershot, they conceded more than they scored last season and they scored an awful lot, so there should always be opportunities.
“But when you’ve got five or six lads – I’ll be generous and just say – off-the-pace, because I’m concerned there’s more to it than that, but let’s be generous and say five or six lads off-the-pace, then you’re not going to win National League football matches.”
When asked if he was surprised by Town’s poor performance after last week’s opening day win over Barnet, Millington said: “No, we had a similar performance and a similar result after we beat Chesterfield last season, again, something we warned the lads about, we discussed.
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