"It shows great character," says McGrath on Town's draw at Kidderminster

Debutant Chris Sze came off the bench to equalise for Halifax after Lewis Walker had put the hosts ahead.

"I thought we were good, we started really bright, really comfortable from back to middle third," McGrath said.

"Our front third entries and our wingers, our ten and our centre-forward, it just didn't click for them.

"Tolls was a bit off it, Dougie was a bit off it, Huges in the ten and Conor Carty was a bit distant from it.

"I'm disappointed with the goal we concede because it comes from really good possession from us.

"I know the hit the crossbar second-half but apart from that I don't remember an opportunity where Granty was under a lot of pressure.

"Conor hit the post first-half, we had the one-on-one with Dogie, the penalty claim - I've seen it back and I think it was a penalty.

"I like winning games of football but minimum requirement is come away with someting, which we did and it shows great character to go a goal down away from home and get a point.

"We've been to Aldershot and not got anything, Altrincham, but it shows where the boys have progressed to.

"We turned what was going to be a disappointing afternoon into an OK afternoon."

Sze and Amari Morgan-Smith combined for Town's goal just moments after both came off the bench.

"I felt it just needed changing, it needed freshening up," McGrath said.

"For whatever reason with the front four, it wasn't happening.

"I knew Morgs was desperate to get on because it's his old club and he was excellent.

"Chris has only trained Thursday, Friday, and some would call it an inspired substitution.

"He's got real quality, you see that with the goal. They combined really well, really good finish."

On his new signing, the Town boss said: "We wanted competition as a nine, he's a nine who can play as a ten and wide, as you saw today.

"He's a very, very good footballer.

"Me and the chairman spoke during the week and he said 'what do you need?' and I said I'd like a bit more firepower higher up the pitch.

"We had Chris watched a lot, we watched him on Tuesday night when he played against Liverpool under 21s, he came on for half-an-hour, we had our head of recruitment there watching him.

"Spoke to the manager at Wigan and he said he needs to go and play games.

"He was on my radar from last year because he had a very good loan at Southport and played against us.

"He's got a good attitudfe, a real good arrogance about him, he's six foot one.

"It's just about adding quality to the squad."