Transferring training-ground brilliance to the pitch will transform Macc Town’s season.
That’s the view of Jack Mackreth, who produced his own magic moment recently by thumping in a memorable equaliser against Halifax.
But even though the Silkmen were most kindly described as ‘stilted’ a week later in defeat to Braintree the winger says he sees enough during the week to offer hope for the coming games.
“It was a disappointing performance but I think the three previous performances had been really good,” he said.
“I wouldn’t say we had that one coming but we had been performing and if we’d got the results that we deserved in the past three games it wouldn’t have been such a bad result against Braintree.
“We just have to take it on the chin and go again, and make sure we pick up the tempo in the next game and try to get three points.
“At Gateshead we’ve created chances and if we’d have the three points that we deserved from those there wouldn’t have been the pressure on that there was today.
“Once we get those first three points on the board we can relax and show what we’re capable of – in training we’re brilliant at times.
“But once we start playing teams like Braintree at their own game and playing it long they’re happy to take on that pressure.
“Then they scored and we just started going long, we didn’t stick to our game plan which is to play in the right areas, we just boomed it.
“It’s a day that we need to forget and go again on Monday. We need to get back in training and do what we’ve been doing, we’ve been performing in the past few games, so it’s one we have to take on the chin and go again and grind out some results.
“If we pick up the tempo in games we’ll be fine.”
Mackreth was a half-time substitute for John Paul Kissock on Saturday and admits he struggled to have the influence he’d have wanted, despite finding time to set up Scott Boden for a shot on goal.
“If Scotty had scored that it would have been a completely different game for Scott, myself, the whole team” he reflected.
And while he shrugs off the ‘impact sub’ tag he has been saddled with he concedes that there are times he’ll be on the bench but he’ll be ready and waiting to take his chance the next time he gets the nod.
“I seem to get labelled with that ‘impact player’ tag a bit but I don’t feel as though I’m an impact player,” he said.
“John felt he wanted to go tight in midfield at Luton and play JP and Winney in there, they’re a bit more reliable and can go deeper whereas I like to get myself forward.
“But they did well and he kept them in so I felt today was my chance, although I had a chance last week and I scored.
“I’ve got no doubt that when I get my chance again I’ll make the most of it – no doubt about that, I’ve just got to keep coming on and performing, it didn’t quite go for me today but he knows what I can do.”
