AFC Fylde drew their penultimate pre-season match with Morecambe on Tuesday.

Craig Mahon saw some more positive signs after his AFC Fylde team had their latest pre-season outing in midweek.

The Coasters drew 1-1 at Morecambe on Tuesday, in a game where both goals came in the last 10 minutes.

Mahon, whose players conclude their preparations for the new National League season at Warrington Rylands on Saturday, said: “The first 20, 25 (minutes), I thought it took us a little to get into it.

“They had a lot of the pressure and a lot of the chances in the first 20.

“Looking back at last year, we might have crumbled at that moment and been a little put off by it - but we didn’t crumble.

“We got ourselves into the game and, by the end of the game, I thought we looked really good.

“You could see what we are trying to do, you could see the lads’ patterns and how we play - and I thought it was a really good game.

“I think it gives us a really good test. I think Morecambe will be a tough test for any team in the National North this year and it was good for us to get some minutes in the tank.”

Summer signing Dylan Allen-Hadley continued his fine start to life with Fylde by putting them in front on 82 minutes, only for Paul Lewis to level for the Shrimps moments later.

“There’s still some things he needs to be better at but we’ll give him credit where credit’s due!” Mahon said of Allen-Hadley.

“The touch, the play, the finish, is fantastic. He’s been really good, he’s listened about how we play and how we do things.

“When we lose it, we go and get it back. It doesn’t matter if you lose it up the other end of the field, you go and win the ball back you lost.

“That’s the mindset that we’re trying to instil into him - and you can see that - but his quality when he has the ball is in abundance for everybody to see.

“He caused so much trouble in the first half and he deserved that goal in the second half.”