Club Captain Ryan Crossley has urged his team-mates to bounce back from their "abject performance" at Prescot Cables with a positive result against AFC Fylde on Tuesday. In his Captain's Column for FC Halifax's Official Programme, he revealed:

"The match was one of those results and performances that you could analyse all day to be honest. The performance was abject, we were poor and we were second to everything. As a side we didn't take responsibility for ourselves, as we were always waiting for other people to do it first. We would've probably taken a point as we didn't play particularly well and it still would've been a point away from home. As it happens, we're not necessarily disappointed in losing the game but we are disappointed in how we lost it."

Town had chances to make the breakthrough at Hope Street but they ultimately failed to score in a game for only the second time this season and thus recording their first defeat of the league campaign. And Crossley, like Manager Neil Aspin, doesn't want the side to get into a losing habit:

"We did create chances and they were good chances which the strikers themselves would expect to put away. They don't need me, or the Gaffer or any of the other lads to tell them otherwise. They set their standards and they'd expect themselves to take chances like the ones at Hope Street when they come along. But we're disappointed with the whole game and not just disappointed with the missed chances. We accepted in our general play that we were second best and now we've got to bounce back tonight."

Read more from the Captain in his 'Crossley's Comments' column, only in the Shaymen Shout edition vs AFC Fylde.

Also listen to Adam Cheshire's audio interview with Ryan Crossley after Town's first league defeat of the season at Prescot Cables only on Shaymen Player.